Re: Syndicomm order processing update

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Sheppy wrote:
> On Mar 9, 3:06 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Sheppy wrote:
> >
> > > Well, frustratingly, I opened a letter I got from Intuit today and
> > > discovered that they're shutting off my merchant account service (for
> > > credit card processing) unless I upgrade to QuickBooks 2008.  I tried
> > > to do that and it completely hosed QB on my system, and nothing I do
> > > seems to help.  In addition to that, Windows appears to have become
> > > corrupted as well in the process.
> >
> > Have you tried system restore--it should put things back the way
> > they were before your install.
>
>
> Don't know what that is.  I'm not really a Windows user; I have it on
> my Mac for the one and only purpose of running QuickBooks. :)

It's a "time machine" for Windows program files, system files, and
the registry.  It generally works very well.

I presume that you are running Windows XP--is that right?

System Restore is the simple way of putting your Windows system back
just the way it was prior to your installation.

Anytime you install applications or system updates, a restore point
is automatically created.  You can, using the System Restore utility,
return your system to any restore point you select.

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to 
System Tools, and then click System Restore.

2. On the Welcome screen, click Restore my computer to an earlier time, 
and then click Next.

Then select your restore point from the calendar and continue to follow
the steps of the wizard...


> Here's an update on my situation:
>
> I happened to have a second Windows VM that I installed when trying
> out VMWare Fusion (I own both that and Parallels), so I've installed
> QuickBooks 2005 on that so I can recover data (I was unable to get
> QuickBooks 2005 running again on Parallels, even after repeated
> attempts to reinstall it).  However, the updater utility to make it
> actually work with my current data file is failing to work.
> Frustrating.  This is a problem I've had before, so hopefully I'll
> overcome it again.
>
> In the meantime, I'm making plans to switch to using MYOB FirstEdge
> for the Mac, a change I'd been resisting because I was hoping Intuit
> would release a usable version of QuickBooks for Mac.  This whole mess
> is taking a lot more work than I'd expected to get through.
>
> On Monday I'll be calling Intuit to request a refund for QuickBooks
> 2008 and will be starting the paperwork to get a merchant account
> through MYOB.  That will take a few days.  I also need to enter
> certain data into FirstEdge before I can start processing orders
> there.  But I should (emphasis on "should") be able to start
> processing at least PayPal orders by the middle of this week or so.
>
> I'm so sorry about this mess, folks.  If it had occurred to me that
> this upgrade would be anything but smooth, I certainly would have done
> things a little differently!
>
> Sheppy


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