Sage 50 Output Error when Restoring Backup to an Existing Company

Sage 50 Output Error when Restoring Backup Existing Company

Sage features are meant to manage all business accountability needs by enabling strong financial reporting and comparing financial statements from different periods, Easy invoicing from data that’s customer specific along with the latest invoice updates, Accepts payments, Import bank transactions to the software. The software comes with additional facilities like Free backup, Free installer with the ability to integrate more than 500+ third party apps.

At times there are issues with the software such as the “Sage 50 Output error” that occurs while restoring a backup to an existing company. Below is the article elaborating the steps to rectify this error. You can also contact AccountingAdvice for your queries and professional troubleshooting of this error.

What is Sage 50 Output Error when Restoring Backup to an Existing Company

While trying to restore a company and following the steps an error message occurs halfway through the process with no other option but to click OK and restore failed.

  • Error: “Sage 50 Output error” happens while restoring a backup to an existing company and displays “Output Error” – Peachtree has encountered a problem and needs to close and the restoration fails
  • While trying to reopen the company it prompts an error – “Cannot find …PERMISS.DAT”
  • However, users may be able to restore to a new company without issues but trying to restore over the newly restored company again pops the same error

Causes of Sage 50 Output Error when Restoring Backup to an Existing Company

  • Damaged installation of Sage 50—U.S. Edition
  • Files to be replaced are busy
  • Outdated data files that are not normal for Peachtree are there in the data path
  • File tables on the hard drive are corrupt
  • Damaged Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
  • Restore process was interrupted

Step for Fix Sage 50 Output Error when Restoring Backup to an Existing Company

Total Time: 35 minutes

Section I: Create a new company using the restored data

💠 Open Sage but don’t open a company and select File > Restore > Browse and navigate to the backup
💠 Click Backup > Open > Next
💠 Select “Create a new company using the restored data” > click Next and select the files that are needed > click Next > Finish

Section II: Damaged Windows Components

💠 Close Sage and check if the SageReg.exe has stopped working due to damaged window

Call AccountingAdvice and we will check the compatibility settings, invalid registry key, missing UUID, permissions, or any corrupt window registry entry

💠 Once these have been taken care of, then Open Sage and restore the backup as explained in section 1

By now the error should get resolved but if it still persists then proceed to Section III

Section III: Repair Sage

💠 Here we need to run Repair, reinstall the most recent Sage service release, and restore the backups

If the error persists then we need to check for a few other things in the step below

Section IV: Check for Damaged Files In Backup Or Outdated Files In The Data Path

💠 There are chances that there may be some damaged, out-of-date, or non-Sage files present in the backup file

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