When a QuickBooks company file has had many transactions over a long period of time, the space taken up by the QuickBooks software increases. This can cause extreme slowdowns of the QuickBooks operating process. The solution to this is to archive the previous years of your company files. In older versions of QuickBooks, this process was called “archiving”; in the newer versions, it is called “clean up company data.” This process condenses the prior year’s company files by removing the details of each closed transaction, leaving only the totals. Tips Warnings Writer Bio
