Upgrading Your Data File Overview

If you’ve used an MYOB product in the past, thank you for upgrading to MYOB Accounting Plus! We’re sure you’ll enjoy Accounting Plus’s ease of use, coupled with the power and flexibility of network computing.

Note: A refresher course on data files
If you’ve been using MYOB products for some time now, you should be familiar with the concept of the Accounting Plus data file. Just in case you need to refresh your memory, though, here’s a short definition:

An Accounting Plus data file is an element (file) inside a computer that stores all the information about your company that you’ve entered into Accounting Plus, including basic company information, transactions, accounts, customer information and so on. Like other MYOB products, Accounting Plus requires only one file to store all your company’s information.

If you plan to take advantage of Accounting Plus’s multi-user capabilities, you can store your data file anywhere on your company’s network that can be accessed by all the workstations used to run Accounting Plus.

For detailed information about your working with your data file on a network, see Working with your data file on a network Overview.

Before you begin using Accounting Plus with your existing data, you need to perform a simple procedure on your data files called upgrading. Upgrading creates a new file using the information in your existing data file, which was created and maintained with your previous MYOB product, so it can be used with the most recent version of Accounting Plus. The upgrade process usually takes only a few minutes; large data files, however, may take an hour or more.

When you upgrade your file to Accounting Plus Version 10, your original data file remains in your system in its original location. The upgraded file -- which can be used with Accounting Plus Version 10 -- will be in a location you specify during the upgrading process.

If you’re using Accounting Plus on a peer-to-peer network, your data file is in a location that can be accessed by all workstations. Since all users are accessing the same data file, you’ll need to upgrade the data file (and any other data files you may have created) only once. We recommend that the Upgrade Wizard be run on the workstation where the data file is located.

Upgrading Your Data File Overview