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ready to help with any question. Credentials confirmed by a Fortune 500 verification firm. Get a Professional Answer Via email, text message, or notification as you wait on our site.Ask follow up questions if you need to. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee Rate the answer you receive. Ask Robert M. Your Own Question Robert M., Consultant Category: Financial Software Satisfied Customers: 8731 Experience: 30 yrs. of computer experience in financial and marketing departments. 23372949 Type Your Financial Software Question Here... Robert M. is online now I cannot open QuickBooks. Error message is "The file you specified Resolved Question: I cannot open QuickBooks. Error message is "The file you specified cannot be opened. Make sure it is not currently being used by another program or read only file. The Windows error was 'the file already exists." At that point I cannot open close or move around in QuickBooks. The only way I can get out of the program is to force a shutdown of QuickBooks and close all programs. Do I have a corrupted prgram? Should I uninstall my present program, reinstall with the information used when we bought the program a year ago and use a back up to restore our information? Will this work? Submitted: 4 years ago. Category:Financial Software Share this conversation Expert: Robert M. replied4 years ago. reboot the computer first If the file is on a network drive reboot that as wellIf that doesnt fix it immediatelycopy the file to my documentsgive it a new name while leaving the .qbw extension the sameright click on this new file select propertiesmake sure that it is NOT set for hidden / read only / systemopen the quickbooks in safe mode byholding down the ctrl key while double clicking on the quickbooks icon to open itthat should open the quickbooks in safe mode with no company filego to file / open companyand browse to my documents an