How to determine Reckon file version

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Brad Lane
Brad Lane Member Posts: 1 ✭
edited July 2020 in Reckon Accounts (Desktop)
I 'm sure i'm not the first to wonder this but...

If i get a reckon file from someone and I don't know what version the file is in (2015 or 2014 etc), is there any way to tell?

At the moment I have to either find out from whoever owns the file or just try to open it in many different versions of the program I have installed.

Is there any other way?

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  • John Graetz
    John Graetz Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭
    edited July 2020
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    Hi Brad.  What a very interesting question.  Obviously the program knows when it is not the correct version.  I had a look around and couldn't find any settings or properties that would help.  Because I have got a range of versions (about the last four versions of the program still on my computer) and five years of data files, each in their own year folder, I decided to do some experimentation and have now got the answer to your problem.

    If you go to Windows Explorer or another file manager, double click on the data file and it seems to know which version of the program to open.  I have tried this using a number of different program versions and it works.  I have also used an old file in a 2010 data folder.  When I clicked on this data file, it took me to the 2012/13 version of the program, which is probably the oldest version on this computer.  When I tried to open it in that version, it immediately told me that I needed to Update the File to a newer version, in this case the 2012/13 version.

    Have a try and this and see if it works for you.  If it does, you will probably have fewer trips to the chemist shop looking for headache tablets!!  John
  • gazza73
    gazza73 Accredited Partner Posts: 803 Accredited Partner Accredited Partner
    edited December 2016
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    John - I agree - this try-it-or-else  approach has been an issue for Accountants who get client QBW files for years (or portable or QBB or whatever).  The naming convention does not include a version.     Every USER tends to look after their own needs (trying not to say selfishly)....  by just naming a file as companyname.QBW.   I've always called files:  company20xxYY  to include the version of software that is needed to in fact open the file.  But hat's just me.   Other people's files are unknown as you've explored here.

    Gary

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