Hi Martin I tried what you suggested, while running quickbooks wineboot --force didn't do anything, but wineserver -k shut down Quickbooks immediately and I was able to start it again without restarting Linux or closing the quickbooks process in task manager, You are right about the path my mistake I'm sorry, I know absolutely nothing about writing or executing scripts so to be honest Linux for Dummies would probably be an apt title for me and I'm certainly not a power user in any operating system, I have no doubt your script would work and I'm sure I can follow you with a little more instruction but this still doesn't solve my problem of Quickbooks crashing when I try to back up and if this isn't solvable then there is no point in me wasting your time trying to solve anything else, apart from that I can't be completely sure there are no other latent problems that I don't know of yet, I don't want to appear negative Martin and certainly not unappreciative but my computing knowledge is very limited and the last thing I want to do is waste your time or anyone elses trying to teach the unteachable Many Thanks Graeme
