Windows

I tried opening Peachtree Accounting, and received an error that read “Btrieve initialization failed due to invalid transaction file. Please delete the Btrieve.trn file, exit Windows and retry.” What happened? Btrieve, the underlying database structure used by Peachtree Accounting, has a limit of approximately 50 characters in the directory path name. For instance, you could install Peachtree Accounting to a directory called C:BUSINESSACCOUNTS but you could not install it to a directory called C:BUSINESSFINANCESACCOUNTSPEACHWGROUPAPCHTREE. The length of the path to your files would cause a Btrieve error. Correct the data path, then go to your Windows directory and delete the file MKDE.TRN. Then restart Windows. (For Windows 95 users, please see next question.)