Recover Corrupted Tally Accounting Data

Submitted by Deepesh Agarwal on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 09:51

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Tally is the most widely used accounting software in India, and data corruption is a
common problem mainly caused due to power failure, unexpected system shutdown,
virus attacks, media corruption, OS corruption, or hard drive crashes, Since, Accounting
data is very important for its users, Tally being the leading accounting software
company of India incorporates many inbuilt protections to protect the data from getting
corrupted, however data can still get corrupted and Tally provides easy options to
recover it.

Usually when Tally data gets corrupted you are shown an error message similar to this:
"Exiting Tally,
File Damaged
File: 'C:/Tally/Data/0001/Tr01324.500'
Size;- 43136
Possition; 42880
Char;-128 (Done 128)"
If you receive an error similar to above then there are very strong chances of recovering
your data loosing only last few transaction entries. For recovery from such situations
Tally provides an easy company rewriting option, which checks data files for valid
entries and recreates the company profile with all the valid data it can recover. To use
simply follow the instructions below, it is always better to make a backup of your
Tally data folder before attempting any recovery process:
1. Start Tally and goto Company Selection Screen.
2. Now use Ctrl + Alt + R key combination to launch the Company Rewrite
utility.

3. Select the corrupt company profile (usually the one you were working last) and
press Enter to start the rewrite process.

This method solves 90% cases of tally data corruption.