Magnifying glass missing to open invoices from sales & open invoice reports
06/12/09 8:22am PDT, Viewed by asker 06/21/09 2:31pm PDT
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lost magnifying glass to open invoices from sales, open invoice etc. Any Ideas?
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Hi bdoty,
Try opening a sample company and see if the same thing happens there. If it does, then it is something with the installation (very rare on a Mac!). Try trashing the preferences and if absolutely necessary, re-installing.
If this is only happening in the sample company, then time for our good friend Debi's list blessing! Here is a link to here task list. Make sure you do everything she suggests here!
http://community.intuit.com/wi...
Please let me know if this helps or if you have other questions. If it does help, please consider marking it helpful or solved!
Best regards,
Amy
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In any reports, accounts receivable, sales etc., when mouse is used to click on amount a magnifying glass appears double clicking makes invoice open. I am unable to open anything. I have to go to create invoices and use previous to see it.
This happens in new company as well. I tried updating the Quickbooks version as well with no change.
What preferences do I need to trash?
If I trash the application what effect will that have on my current company file?
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Try running a File->Verify and then a File-Rebuild.
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The preference file to trash is located in your user (Home) Library. Here's the path:
[user/Home]/Library/Preferences/com.intuit.QuickBooks2009.plist
Long-time QuickBooks for Mac user
Former business owner
NOTE: This is a user-to-user forum and not official Technical Support.
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Trashing quickbook preference did not help. Can I trash app and reinstall without issue to current file?
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Before reinstalling, try Biscotti's suggestion on 6/15/09 at 10:44 AM and let us know how that goes. I'm no expert, but I wouldn't expect this to be a problem with QuickBooks itself but a corrupted preference (you trashed it with QB shut down, right?), a data file problem (hence Biscotti's suggestion), or even a Mac user account problem (more on that if the rebuild doesn't work).
Long-time QuickBooks for Mac user
Former business owner
NOTE: This is a user-to-user forum and not official Technical Support.
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Trashed preference file with Quickbooks off. Did file verify and rebuild before and after trashed preference. I trashed an application I had sitting around not used that could have been downloaded about the same time this issue started. No change.
Any other Ideas.
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I wonder whether your user account on your Mac might have become corrupted.
To test this theory, create a new user account on your Mac. Then navigate to where your company file is located in your regular user account and double-click the file to open it. (If necessary, change the file's Sharing & Permissions settings in the Finder to allow the new account to "Read & Write.")
If your problems with QuickBooks behavior disappear in the new user account, then your other one is likely corrupt. To my knowledge, there's no way to fix a corrupt user account.
Post back with your results, okay?
Long-time QuickBooks for Mac user
Former business owner
NOTE: This is a user-to-user forum and not official Technical Support.
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I cured it today.
After 4 hours for file trashing, reloading etc I noticed the magnifying glass came on when I clicked Quickbooks feed back (opened Safari) and then right clicked back to open invoices. The next thing I noticed was the > < arrows on selected invoice did not move when clicked with mouse. I then tried the keyboard up/down and it moved with keyboard and enter to open any invoice. I trashed mouse software/ reload and all is good.
Thank you all for taking the time to help with this issue.
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Are you saying that in your Customer Center you are missing the Search Customers box?