QuickBooks company files play a major role in the day-to-day operations and running a business smoothly. But what if it gets corrupted? Though data corruption in QuickBooks is a minor issue, it needs to be treated urgently. Otherwise, you may lose crucial data.

A corrupt company file is one of the main reasons QuickBooks crashes when opening a company file. The data corruption issue might be triggered by external and internal factors such as hardware, software conflicts, malware attacks, and so on. Delve deep into the blog to explore solutions to eliminate the issue.

If you have encountered corruption in your company files or data, this guide can help you, but you can’t take risks with your data. You must contact professionals and let them fix it. To contact, dial 1.855.738.2784.

How to Fix Data Corruption in QuickBooks

Here are the steps given that you can use to get rid of corrupted data in QuickBooks. Let me help you understand each step carefully.

Solution 1: Repairing the company file with the help of the Rebuild Data tool

• Go to the File menu.
• Hover over Utilities.
• Choose Rebuild Data.
• Head to the QuickBooks Information window.
• Click OK. 
• You have to save the backup and follow the guidelines to do so.
• The tool takes time to repair your file. 
• You may think QuickBooks is stuck, but as soon as you move your mouse, you will see it's working. 
• After the tool repairs your file, choose OK.
• Go to the File menu. 
• Hover over Utilities.
• Choose Verify Data.
• Let this work and find issues in your files.

If this process doesn’t find any issues, choose OK, and you can use your company file.

Choose Rebuild Now if any issues are there.

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Solution 2: Use QB File Doctor to repair your company file

• Go to the QuickBooks tool hub.
• Choose Company File Issues.
• Select Run QuickBooks File Doctor, wait for a minute, and let this open.

Note: If it doesn’t open, you need to launch this manually by entering QuickBooks File Doctor.

• Pick up your company file from the dropdown menu. 

Note: You might need to browse and look for your file.

• Click Check your file (middle option only).
• Tap Continue.
• Enter your QuickBooks admin password.
• Click Next.

Solution 3: Rebuilding data to manually repair your company file

To manually fix data errors:

• Go to the File menu.
• Hover over Utilities.
• Choose Verify Data.
• Let your file get checked for data issues.
• Move to the Verify Results screen.
• Choose Expand All to see the errors.
• Choose the See Online Article to look for the resolving steps.

If you don’t find any articles there, contact us.

Wrapping It Up

To outline this blog, data corruption in QuickBooks doesn’t occur often, but it should be treated instantly if it does occur. There are no special reasons that trigger this, but hardware or software glitches can be responsible. For this, you have been given some troubleshooting methods; implement them carefully and resolve the issue.

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