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mikefinleyco
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May 19, 202001:29 PM
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Can you operate a copy of QB desktop from a company file located in Dropbox? In other words, if I keep my QB company file in Dropbox, I could access and make changes to it from the road with a laptop with internet access and when I return to the office and access the same file from my desktop the changes would be there. Wouldn't this essentially turn QB desktop into QB online? Any reason this would not work?
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Fiat Lux - ASIA
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May 19, 202008:40 PM
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Can you operate QB desktop from a company file in dropbox which would make it essentially cloud based?
I would only recommend storing QBD data file on a cloud storage (e.g GDrive, DBox) for the backup purpose. You should download the data file locally anytime you want to work on it, and reupload back to the cloud later. Some of our clients have said that their data files tend to corrupt when opening it direcly to the cloud.
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btks
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May 20, 202003:33 AM
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Can you operate QB desktop from a company file in dropbox which would make it essentially cloud based?
https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/account-management/want-to-use-qb-on-two-computers...
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mikefinleyco
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May 20, 202007:10 AM
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Can you operate QB desktop from a company file in dropbox which would make it essentially cloud based?
Yes, I've seen that, but it's just a 3rd party opinion, it's not from QB or even a QB user.
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JayMeister
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February 17, 202202:25 PM
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Can you operate QB desktop from a company file in dropbox which would make it essentially cloud based?
I have come to agree with Fiat Lux. I recently moved to TopBox for cloud storage which automatically syncs from my local hard-drive to the TopBox cloud. I have run, literally, dozens of tests. Quickbooks Desktop cannot open the Company File, not matter how I try to do it. It always fails. I must first copy the file from the cloud to a local drive that is not being linked to the cloud. Do my Quickbooks work. And then, copy the file back to the cloud. In my case, I only copy the QBW file. That file is all that is needed for Quickbooks to open the Company and generate all of the other needed Quickbooks files.
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