So if you do not, you can easily go back to your QB2017 and you can re-do the work you did while testing QB2021. So you need to keep a Backup and do some work and decide if you want to stay with the new version. But just like the QB2019 version, you CANNOT open the file in an older QBs version once you have converted it.
You can download a trial version and see what happens. So if you do not, you can easily go back to your QB2017 and you can re-do the work you did while testing can recover from your last QB2017 Backup. And no, you do not need to switch to a subscription (though people say it's coming - but I think it would be a bad idea). Is your company file located on the same machine you're working in QBs? Or by chance are you using Multi-User mode and the company file is on a second machine? If it is, are you using WiFi to connect to it? (Not talking about WiFi to the Internet, but to your Company.QBW file.)Įither that, or you never really fixed your corrupt data and that may be why the problem keeps reappearing.Īnd the current Desktop version is QB2021 if you wanted to give that a shot. And that file will still work in QB2017.Īnd if you still have QB2019 installed, you can try the File > Utility > Repair File and Network Problems (vs the Rebuild Data that's down at the bottom of the list).Īnd it's not unusual to have an occasional data corruption (why you should backup often), but to have multiple corruptions like you're describing might mean something else is going on. You can recover from your last QB2017 Backup.