Can I just shoot myself now?
by Zia ~ March 5th, 2007. Filed under: Exigencies.I’ve been using QuickBooks Professional 2004 for the past couple of years, mainly because my mother gave me her copy after she decided that she hated it. I don’t particularly love it, but it’s been functional–which is why I haven’t switched despite having a copy of SBA 2006. I figured that once I switched to Vista, I’d change over to a product that can create invoices in Word rather than the cumbersome PDF.
And lo and behold! Microsoft made the lite version of SBA’s successor free! It was all I needed. Woohoo. So I installed it on the new machine and copied over the QB file to import data.
Didn’t work. Apparently, you need an instance of the program itself to transfer. The data files aren’t enough.
Okay. So I went ahead and installed Office Accounting Express on my old PC. Did all the file transfers, works like a charm. YAY. Transferred the company file over to the new machine.
Didn’t work.
Okay, so found message board with support guy saying that the best way is to create a backup, then reinstall the backup on the new machine. YAY. I’m almost there. I followed instructions. It was all working. And then, it …
Didn’t work.
Okay, so NOW the problem is that the SQL database doesn’t exist. Well, that’s what I’m assuming. What the message SAYS is that my SQL server, which was installed as part of the damn program, is not set to allow remote configurations. I suppose that’s all essentially the same thing: it doesn’t exist because it can’t be configured remotely.
Please, somebody, just hand me a gun. Vista 64-bit is going to be Vista, in 64 bits. Then, so am I.
Update: five minutes later.
Oh Jesus. Okay, so I decided to change permissions in SQL Server Express. Found a handy dandy little technet article, followed the instructions … and then found out that I needed to install SP2. Do I have the strength for this?
Update: the next day/
I’m glad I didn’t start installing stuff. I posted a message on the help forum and someone kindly told me to restore it to a different name. It works now.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Oh, my God, the “I’ve done everything it said to do–and it still doesn’t work” problem. One of the most frustrating problems in the world. I have no expertise to offer, just the belief that if you understand have this stuff you’re talking about, you’ll get through it. You must have the strength, as you are now my new hero in all tech matters. No pressure. Get to it, hero!
March 6th, 2007 at 7:31 am
I don’t understand it — I just write about it for a living! No offense, but me being a hero should strike terror into your heart. It does in mine, anyway. But it’s all working now. I think. I haven’t actually tried to do anything. I need to send off a couple of invoices today, so we shall see. (Ah, those famous words …) Speaking of which, I need to make an appointment with my accountant.