Increasing memory for QuickBooks

If you see an error message indicating that QuickBooks is low on memory, you may want to increase the amount of memory allocated to QuickBooks. The recommended amount of memory to allocate to QuickBooks is 8000KB (or 8 MB), but very large company files may require even more memory.

Before you begin:

Close the windows for any other applications that are running. This may solve the problem. If it doesn't, follow the instructions below.

To increase memory for QuickBooks:

  1. Quit QuickBooks if it is running.
  2. In the Finder, click the QuickBooks icon to select it.
  3. From the Finder's File menu, choose Get Info, and then choose Memory.
  4. In the Preferred Size field, select the memory amount allotted to QuickBooks. Type the number of kilobytes (KB) of memory you want QuickBooks to set aside for itself.

    Try increasing the memory by 500K at a time, until you no longer see the low memory error message.