14500 Names
With the exception of the high dollar enterprise version QB has a name limit, the dreaded 14,500 number.
Bring up QB and hit F2 (the function key) this screen tells you a world about your installation, but some of it is not to be trusted. As an example my screen says
Date First Used - 2/18/2006
Integrated applications last accessed - 7/27/2007 (I don’t have or use integrated applications- pretty good though huh? Accessed an application I do not have before I ever got the program installed) Well Charlie pointed out the error of my ways in his comment, when I looked at preferences>integrated applications there sits my DYMO label maker - I forgot I had added it, but the date is still screwy, I added it in 2008.
Mine also has something called an on-line billing token and a shopping source token - both of which I have no idea what they are, and when I asked QB they said they weren’t used anymore and shouldn’t be there.
But anyway, right side, toward the bottom is a window, that tells you total accounts and total names. If the number seems high to you, that is because QB counts inactive items too. As I understand it, everything in that window is a name, and counts toward the magic number.
But you can delete items that have not been used in a transaction and it lowers the number.
You can merge items and it lowers the number.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
On a tangent a bit - the “integrated applications” issue - you may have some that you don’t realize are there. I suspect that some utility programs that look to be a part of QB are technically “integrated applications”. The shipping manager, for example, may be using the “integrated applications” interface. They don’t look like separate programs to you and don’t have to go through the standard approval process for integrated applications, but they still count on this list. The Financial Statement Designer counts this way, and can show on the list in your Preferences as well.
rustler Says:
July 4th, 2008 at 4:29 am
ROFL I found it, I added the Dymo label printer, it shows up under preferences>Integrated applications I had forgot I had it in use, but that still doesn’t account for date of the application, I added it in 2008. I’ll edit the post, thanks. I don’t use shipping manager.