

QuickBooks will prompt for the file to be updated.


Three businesses that lost data during the update snafu have filed a lawsuit against Intuit and have asked a federal judge to grant the case class-action status. Some businesses, however, aren’t so easily mollified. The latest patch, so far as we can tell, simply disables any further updates to the application-on January 3rd the company “began automatically feeding a patch to Mac QuickBooks users that permanently switches off the program’s upgrade mechanism to prevent a repetition of a data disaster.” In the meantime, since they can’t offer a way to fix the deleted Desktop folders, they’re offering rebates to users who buy a copy of the data recovery program Data Rescue II. The company released a patch, but it didn’t work if you launched QuickBooks while connected to a wireless hotspot, oops. * Intuit’s December update for 20 versions of QuickBooks Pro on the Mac platform wiped the user’s Desktop folder and anything stored there. Here’s one reason to use an online service to store financial data: no buggy updates to deal with. Apple uh oh updates personal finance bugs software Mac computers accounting
