http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspxAsk technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.enCommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/15267.aspxSun, 30 Dec 2012 00:05:22 GMT3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:15267mlongacre0http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/15267.aspxhttp://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=15267<p><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_0_start">Josh, this sounds like the opposite of what Method is designed to do.&nbsp; Generally speaking, Method is only looking at &quot;current&quot; <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_5_start">QuickBooks </span>data, <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_4_start"></span>and it wasn&#39;t intended to have years of <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_6_start">transaction </span>history in it.&nbsp; Also keep in mind that not all data ia allowed to be synced from QuickBooks to Method, so&nbsp;<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_7_start">keeping the </span>transactions in Method might&nbsp;result in&nbsp;incomplete records.<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_21_start">&nbsp; You might also skew your&nbsp;customer balances in Method&nbsp;if you only kept invoices and not payments.</span></span></p> <p><span style="overflow:hidden;">Why do you want to archive the existing data?&nbsp; The file size is not outrageous <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_9_start">(I would <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_10_start"></span>not <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_11_start">even </span>call 150 MB very large if you are on a current version of QuickBooks) </span>and you aren&#39;t close to the limits on the num<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_1_start"></span>ber of customers.&nbsp; Are you experiencing any issues with your QuickBooks file?&nbsp; If so, look at other remedies before you archive.<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_13_start">&nbsp; There are many ways to speed up the file if that is the only issue.<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_16_start">&nbsp; Talk to a good QuickBooks consultant about that.<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_20_start">&nbsp; <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_23_start"></span>Start by looking at your computer and network specs to see if there is a bottleneck there.</span><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_18_start"></span></span><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_14_start"></span></span><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_8_start"></span><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_2_start"></span></span></p> <p><span style="overflow:hidden;">If you do decide to archive past transactions, why not just make a copy of your QuickBooks file before you <span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_3_start"></span>do it so that you&#39;ll have the details available if y<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_19_start">o</span>u need to look them up?</span><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_12_start"></span><br /><span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_15_start"></span></p> <p><span style="overflow:hidden;">-Mary Longacre<span style="overflow:hidden;" id="mce_17_start"></span></span></p> <p><span style="overflow:hidden;"><span style="overflow:hidden;">703-299-0802</span></span></p>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/15261.aspxFri, 28 Dec 2012 22:15:23 GMT3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:15261joshtodd0http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/15261.aspxhttp://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&PostID=15261<p>We have a very large QB company file. Currently it is sitting at about 150 MB. We have about 7,000 customers and about 10 years worth of transaction history. I would like to do an archive operation on the QB file to reduce the file size and make it faster to work with. The problem is, I absolutely do not want to lose all the transaction data. I was wondering if there would be a way to sync all the invoices to Method, then run the Archive operation without causing Method to delete all of those invoices for the past 10 years. We would still need to sync all NEW invoices from the date of the Archive forward. I would just like to keep all that transaction history in Method instead of sitting in my Quickbooks company file.</p> <p>Is this possible?</p>