For small and medium-sized businesses, Intuit QuickBooks is like a genie. They can hand over all their financial records and the task of creating invoices, bills, as well as balance sheets to it and relax while the software toils away. With thousands of customers trusting it with their critical monetary information, there is naturally no doubt about its security features; the data QuickBooks handles is safe from theft and misuse. However, what we’re about to discuss in this post is a whole different kind of threat that QuickBooks data is exposed to. And this threat comes in the form of errors that can damage or corrupt the company file making all data within it temporarily or permanently inaccessible.
QuickBooks company file and associated errors
QuickBooks saves all information about a particular client/project and associated financial records in data files known as Company Files. Every time a client/project is created in QuickBooks, a new company file is created to save all the data related to it. That’s how the software is able to segregate the invoices, bills, and other data pertaining to different clients. At one time, QuickBooks can open only one company file allowing users to make updates to the data stored in it.
The safety of company files is essential to ensure that QuickBooks keeps running smoothly. Quite understandably, if a Company file gets damaged, it won’t open within QuickBooks resulting in errors and data inaccessibility.
One particular error that is thrown when QuickBooks company file doesn’t open is:
Error -6175: An error occurred when QuickBooks tried to access the company file
Image Credit: Intuit Error 6175 can occur in the QuickBooks Desktop application when you try to host multi-user access for your company data file. Resolving this error depends upon understanding what causes it.
Reasons behind error 6175 in QuickBooks
According to Intuit, QuickBooks company file error 6175 occurs when QB Desktop is unable to start or stop the Database Server Manager. The Database Server Manager is used in multi-user mode to host company files. If this service (also known as the QuickBooksDB service needed by the QBDataServiceUser) faces a program time-out, it cannot start resulting in error 6175 in QuickBooks. Some of the reasons why this service cannot start/stop include:
- Firewall software
- Content blockers (cyber-sitter programs)
- Other technical issues
- Busy status of the server hosting the company file (QBW)
If the error message is an isolated event, it may mean that when you tried accessing the company file, the server faced a combination of requests which it couldn’t process in a timely manner. As such, simply waiting or rebooting the server will typically restore normal operation. If however, this doesn’t work, you might need one of the advanced solutions to fix it.
Advanced Solutions
Try out these advanced solutions if the issue persists even after a server reboot:
- Verify that QBDataServiceUser is configured to be used with Administrator rights.
- Verify that the executables QBW32.exe, QBUpdate.exe, QBDBMgr.exe and QBDBMgrN.exe have been given the correct access rights for any firewall or system security software.
Once you’ve confirmed the above settings, reboot the server and then try accessing the company file again. It should open without any glitches. However, if it still doesn’t, the best way to deal with the issue would be to repair your company file (QBW) and recover all data stored within it through advanced QuickBooks repair software.
Stellar Repair for QuickBooks® Software detects problems within company files (QBW) and repairs them efficiently thereby allowing you to recover critical project information like customers, vendors, company, and employees. The software facilitates risk-free extraction of sensitive financial information like paychecks, payroll transactions, job detail, etc, from QBW files thus letting you resume your activities without any hassle.
Through a simple 3-step process including the phases Select, Scan, Repair, the software fixes the severest of corruptions within QBW files thus getting QuickBooks to an up-and-running state in no time.
You can also check the QuickBooks file repair process by this infographic.
Wrapping it up
When errors arise with QuickBooks (QB) Software, the challenges bounce back quickly with Stellar Repair for QuickBooks® Software. Time and again, this product has proven to be the best solution for QuickBooks company file errors.
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