If you have multiple Acctivate company entries and any of them are no longer used you can use the following steps to remove them. This option is available to add or remove these entries to avoid confusion upon log in.…
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Schedule an Automatic Database Backup
You can setup a schedule to automatically backup your Acctivate company database. Important: Perform the following steps from the server not from a workstation. Log in as a Windows Administrator to the main Acctivate server (Primary Install) where SQL Server…
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Backup and Recovery- Quick View
Backing up your company’s data should be a daily business activity. It is very important to backup and safeguard your Acctivate and QuickBooks data each day and to remove this information from your location.
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Database Maintenance
The Acctivate Database Maintenance utility is designed to manage the Acctivate company list, connection to the database server, and enable users to create a new backup or restore an existing backup file. Database Maintenance is located on the Windows Start…
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Receive “Could not allocate space…” posting invoices and transactions
Users may receive the exception below when posting Invoices, transactions, or during a Synchronization with QuickBooks. Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.tbInvoice’ in database ‘ACCTivate$DEMO’ because the ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full. This may be caused by two separate scenarios.…
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Restore an Acctivate backup file
From time to time, you may need to restore a backup of your Acctivate company file. All users will need to log out of Acctivate in order to restore a backup. To do this: Open Database Maintenance by going to the…
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Creating a Backup Routine
Backing up your Acctivate and QuickBooks data should be an integral part in the life of your business. When it comes to business computers, from time to time emergencies happen. Buildings catch on fire, electrical surges destroy hard drives, thieves…
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How to Back up Acctivate
This is the step-by-step procedure to back up one company in Acctivate. If you have more than one company, you must follow this procedure for each company you wish to backup. Open Acctivate Open the Backup Company Data Window by going…
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Restore Live Company to PRACTICE
Use the following steps to create a backup of your “Live” company using the Backup Company function within Acctivate and restore this to either an existing PRACTICE or MODEL Company or a new Company. Create the Backup of your Live…
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Microsoft SQL Server Browser Service
Microsoft SQL Server contains multiple components that work together to provide data access to a variety of client applications, such as Acctivate. One of the key components for Acctivate is the SQL Server Browser Service. The Browser Service was introduced…
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