If you lost your loans AND none of the above worked AND your QB company file has a different name after the upgrade here is a solution.
- Get a binary editor such as HHD free fex editor neo.
- Determine your new company file name and your old company file name. I'll use CFOLD and CFNEW here.
- Make a backup copy of CFNEW.LMR (copy it somewhere else)
- Using the binary editor open the CFNEW.LMR file. I'm guessing you'll see a filename a the top and lots of zero's or empty space. That means the data is gone and we need to restore it.
- Close CFNEW.LMR
- Open CFOLD.LMR
- At the top you'll see a file name like CFOLD.QBW
- Using the binary editor, change CFOLD.QBW to CFNEW.QBW by just typing it.
- Save the file as CFNEW.LMR
- Restart Quickbooks
Summary:
During the upgrade and creating a new file the loan data, which is stored in the .LMR file does not get carried over. You can't just rename the .LMR file because it checks the company file name in the .LMR file. If it doesn't match you'll get an error.
