Where does Quickbooks store its data?

I was given a HD that has gone bad and I need to rescue the data saved by Quickbooks. Where does Quickbooks save data by default?

4 Answers

From here:

Looks like:

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks Pro\[your company data file]

For Windows 7, the files are located at C:/users/username/Documents/intuit/quickbooks/company files

The default is usually along these lines:

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks\Components

but it would be easier to run a DIR search (or find on Linux) over the hard drive to see where most of the .qbw files are:

DIR /S *.qbw

For Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions 14 & 17 on Windows (the versions I have run) the company file is stored in C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Intuit\QuickBooks\Company Files by default.

Anyone viewing this post like myself may also be interested to know that the user-specific config file for a client installation is stored at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Intuit\Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions 17.0\QBWUSER.INI (change the version number with your version).