topic Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files in QlikView

Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

I am using the Personal free edition of Qlikview. I opened up a few QVWs created by other people on the message board and now I am getting this message when I try to open my own files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have created so many critical QVWs that I need for work and now I am worried I lost everything.

Thank you,

- dave

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

vardhancse — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:02:53 GMT

Hi,

Using personal edition we cannot open the QVW's developed by other users.

Only using licensed version we can able to open the QVW's created by another users.

Using personal edition, we will have 5 instances where we can open others QVW's

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anil_Babu_Samineni — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:03:04 GMT

Either your file is corrupted. Would you describe more, are you sure you only created the files. Because, you can access till 5 qvw's from other developer file. But, next one to open you must have the license. So, try to explain bit more

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:06:24 GMT

I created a qvw in the past ... Lets call it Qlik1

Then tonight, I opened a bunch of QVWs from the message board, trying to solve a problem.

Now when I go to open Qlik1, which I created many days ago, I get the error message

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

vardhancse — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:09:00 GMT

That Qlik1 might be opened by another user, did some changes and might save the file.

Since you are using personal edition, you were not able to open now

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:16:14 GMT

I am not sharing my files with anyone else.

I can open NEW files I create now, but anything I created before tonight I cannot open.

This has to be a known issue?

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

vardhancse — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 03:19:39 GMT

Using personal edition we can able to open up to 5 instances of other QVW's created by other users.

If not once try to run the QV setup file and try to repair the installation and try again.

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

gireesh1216 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:17:44 GMT

Without qlikview licence we cannot open the QVW's developed by other users.

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

tresB — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:47:40 GMT

It happens like this:

Once you install QV desktop personal edition in a computer, QV assigns a key to it internally. Once you create a qvw file that key gets embedded in the qvw file. Now this qvw file can be opened from your system (since that has the same key) and systems that has a valid license. When you try to open a file created by somebody else, it would find a mismatch in the key and warn you - if you open that file your system key gets changed to that of qvw (from somebody else). Now if you wish to open qvws that were created by you - qv finds that they are having different key, so it warns you (even if it was created by you). If you open the file forcefully your system gets back the key and then be able to open all the qvws were created by you earlier. But note here, in this process you have lost two chances of recovery (read -'key change') out of maximum four chances.

That means, if your fourth chance gets a foreign qv key (from other user-created qvw) you would not be able to open your own files anymore. Hope this helps.

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:52:08 GMT

Is there any way Qlik can help me? Is there some type of support team? This was an accident and now I am locked out of several of my files.

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

tresB — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:05:21 GMT

If you are doing some sort of POC and planning to implement QV in future, you may contact your nearby Qlik partner and they can help you providing a temporary license. And if you want to contact support it's here: Qlik Support

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Peter_Cammaert — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:28:07 GMT

I'm sorry this comes too late, but it could have been very useful to read the Personal Edition FAQs before you started using a PE Desktop, especially the part about "What is "Document Recovery" and when should I use it?". Unfortunately there is only one way to recover your entire investment: buy a license.

You can also move to a different PC or a different Windows account and use a single document recovery to regain access to your work. But you will not be able to move back to your previous situation...

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:10:14 GMT

peter - i would have to buy an enterprise license through my company right? last time I checked QV didnt sell to individuals.

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Peter_Cammaert — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:18:55 GMT

What do you mean by "an enterprise license"? You can order a simple local license (comparable to a Named CAL, only without the server) which allows a single user account to run QlikView Dekstop on a single machine. That's what you were doing before, correct?

You said that you created a lot of ciritical documents for "work" (PE is meant for personal or evaluation use, not for business use) Is it a problem to order a license for your employer?

Re: Cannot Open My Own Qlikview Files

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:23:37 GMT

looking into ordering the simple local license. I didnt know that was an option. Going to start a conversation with sales to figure out the best way forward. Thanks for your help.