So I'm recovering data from a corrupt hard drive in a Mac. It had QB 2013. The QB2013 file is not opening in QB for Mac 2013 anymore. I get the error:
The document "x" could not be opened. The file isn't in the correct format.
The file might be corrupt, truncated, or in an unexpected format.
The newest backup I could find on the drive is from 7/29/19, more than a year ago, and understandably it's smaller than the more recent file which is only 2.27MB. I know QB for Windows has File Doctor which is good at finding issues and repairing. But QB for Mac doesn't seem to have any type of repair tool other than the integrated Utilities repair options, which require the file to be opened in the first place.
I've opened the file in Notepad, I'm on Windows now, and compared a lot of the unreadable characters which all seem to be very similar to the backup file. So it appears to mostly be intact by what I could tell. It even starts with the correct header "SQLite format 3" in the file and everything seems good. Maybe it's just 0.1% corrupt.
Is there any way to do a repair/verify on a Mac file that won't open to allow me to do a repair/verify? I thought of trying to convert the file to Windows and then back to Mac, even that only works once the file is opened.
