For some unknown reason (long ago)  I obviously disobeyed the instructions which clearly states that if you only have one company it should be your default company.
 
We only have one business but somehow I have 3 companies in DBA.      I use company (12).  Company (57) is a back-up made in 2012  and I also see a default company.   I am wanting to do a much needed update and thought I needed to delete company (57) to speed things up.    I went to UT-I and tried to delete (57) but I am told that "one of more logons have access to (57) and that i need to go to PS-C and remove that access"   When I go to PS-C I see that I am the only one with access to company (57).
 
Questions;  
(1)  if I delete my logon access to company (57) can i still delete company (57) UT-I?
(2)  Can I (should I?) delete the default company since the instructions clearly say I should only have one company but that would leave me with company (12) and when i go through the archives i see things like "it points to the default company"    If I delete the default company will company (12) become my default company?  
 
I am trying to get all my ducks in a row before i do this update because I want it to go as smooth and fast as possible.
 
Thanks
Laura
 
 
 
 

You can not delete the Default company and you should also have a company 99 located in a subfolder named TESTDATA (not 99).  Neither of these companies will slow down the update process because they don't have data.  If you delete your access to the 57 company you will be able to delete it.

You can't get to 1.  You need at least 2 (the "B" company in the DEFAULT folder and "B99" in TESTDATA) and in your case you will have 3 since your live company is the "B12" company.

Why not just leave it the way it is? Company 99 has nothing in it and it will not affect your update speed. I have Default, B99, and our working company, B30. I also created a test company (B90), which is a copy of our working company. Like I said above, unless someone is running some longer term testing I delete it before updating so I don't have to watch all those large tables get rebuilt twice (once for B30 and again for B90). Leaving B99 and Default don't affect update time since there is really nothing in there. If you can just get rid of your B57 you should be fine.