Regular bookkeeping is essential to run a business successfully, and QuickBooks, known for its versatility and reliability, is making this worrisome task a piece of cake for thousands of businesses, including fresh startups and MSMEs. QuickBooks comes with several powerful tools and features that can manage almost all accounting and financing activities, such as payroll, tracking income and expenses, filing taxes, and many more. However, there are a number of errors and bugs that are bound to occur while using QuickBooks Desktop. In this post, we are going talk about QuickBooks error 6000 77, which falls under the category of 6XXX series and usually occurs when a user attempts to open the company file in QuickBooks Desktop. There can be several reasons behind the occurrence of such a company file error that we aim to discuss with you alongside the solutions through this post.
A user might see the following error message of the error code:
“We’re sorry. QuickBooks encountered a problem.

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”Resolving QuickBooks error 6000 77 can be pretty daunting and frustrating. However, all it requires the right troubleshooting guidance that you can get immediately from our QuickBooks professionals at the toll-free number 800.583.0572.

What can be the reasons causing QuickBooks error code 6000 77?

Generally, QuickBooks error code 6000 77 gets triggered when there are some complications with the company file itself. However, there can be several other reasons, such as follows:

• The Windows Firewall Defender is preventing QuickBooks Desktop from accessing the company file on the computer.

What needs to be done to rectify QuickBooks error 6000 77?

Solution 1) Get QuickBooks Tool Hub and run QuickBooks File Doctor 

• On the computer, get the QuickBooks Tool Hub application of the most recent version (1.5.0.0).
• In the Downloads folder, select the downloaded QuickBooksToolHub.exe installation file.
• Follow the instructions you see on the screen to install QuickBooks Tool Hub.
• Open the QuickBooks Tool Hub application and then select the Company File Issues tab located at the left panel.
• Under the Fix My Company File section, click on the Run QuickBooks File Doctor button.
• Click on the Browse and search button to find and choose the QuickBooks company file.

Note: The QuickBooks company file is usually located on the Company Files folder that you can access using the following path: C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Intuit\QuickBooks\Company Files.

• After selecting the company file, choose the Check your file option and then click on the Continue button.
• Type the admin password of QuickBooks Desktop and then click on the Next button.

Solution 2) Make changes to the security settings of Firewall Defender for QuickBooks Desktop

• On the keyboard, press the Windows key to open the Start menu.
• In the search box, enter “Windows Firewall Defender” and open Windows Firewall Defender.
• Choose the Advanced Settings option from the left panel.
• Right-click Inbound Rules and select the New Rule option from the drop-down list of options.
• Choose the Port option and then click on the Next button.
• Now, you need to ensure that the TCP option is chosen.
• Type the port number as per the version year of the QuickBooks Desktop application you are using in the Specific local ports field.
• Click on the Next button.
• Select the Allow the Connection option and then click on the Next button.
• Checkmark all the profiles as prompted and then click on the Next button.
• Create a new rule with the name QBPorts(year).
• After creating the inbound rules, click on the Finish button.

Now, do as per the steps mentioned above in the same manner to create outbound rules, except you need to right-click on Outbound Rules instead of Inbound Rules.

Conclusion:
If you are unable to rectify QuickBooks error 6000 77 even after following both the troubleshooting solutions mentioned in the upper post, then there are high chances that the folder containing the company file has been damaged or corrupted. Therefore, our suggestion for you is recreate the damaged folder to store the company file and see whether this rectifies the error or not. You can also ask for furthermore troubleshooting guidance resolving the company file error from our QuickBooks support team at the toll-free number 800.583.0572.