That should show you the file if it is on your hard drive, in a place Spotlight searches, and if your Spotlight search indices are working correctly.īy default QuickBooks places a new file in the user's Documents folder. What to search for depends on the version of QuickBooks.
You have you can search for the file in the FInder's Spotlight. and thus making the file no longer accessible. A much less likely situation is that your hard drive is experiencing problems - bad sectors, failed media, some virus messing up the permissions, etc.
Typical situations of this would be if the file was on an external drive of some kind (USB stick, network mount, external hard drive) and the other media was removed/disconnected. It would only disappear if it no longer was accessible in the file system. The company file is just a regular data file on your hard drive.
