Attachments

Posted by Jan Groshan on June 24, 2009, 9:12 pm

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IT WORKED ! I thought I had tried that, but you included one extra
step......inside the Attach folder is the 2007Copy folder and inside that
folder are the Acct and Txn folders. I was putting those last two folders
into just the Attach folder. Thank you soooooo much for your "theorizing" !

> Jan:

> I haven't tried this, so this is theoretical on my part.

> I THINK, you need to create an Attach folder in whatever folder your 2007

> file is.

> In that Attach folder you need a separate folder called 2007.

> In that folder you may have 2 folders named Acct and Txn.

> It is in those Acct and Txn that you will have hexadecimal named folders.

> In those folders will be the attachments themselves.

> I believe you have to copy that entire structure to wherever you moved the

> files in order to see the attachments.

> Bob

>>>>

> Yes, I put the "2007" file found in the 'Attach" directory into the same

> folder as the 2007 copy. It still said it couldn't find the

> attachments....even though the attachment icon was in the register.

>> Jan:

>> When you moved the files, did you also move the corresponding

>> QuickenAttach folder that contains the actual attachments?

>> Bob

>> >>>

>> Using Quicken 2009. I have prior years' information backed up (copied) by

>> year, along with the attachments relating to the various transactions. I

>> have moved each year into its own folder. I recently needed to find a

>> scanned item in my 2007 transactions but I couldn't figure out how to get

>> the attachments to be "available". How can I restore a prior year's file

>> copy and have the attachments available as well?

Posted by Andrew on June 29, 2009, 6:55 pm

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Jan Groshan wrote:

> Yes, I put the "2007" file found in the 'Attach" directory into the

> same folder as the 2007 copy. It still said it couldn't find the

> attachments....even though the attachment icon was in the register.

Just somewhat following this, but when you had said "you moved...", did you
use the Quicken utilities to do that, or did you MANUALLY do it using drag
and drop with Windows Explorer? If the former, then I would think something
is wrong if, after using Quicken's restore, it didn't completely do the job.
If, OTOH, you MANUALLY copied things, than all bets are off.

I just want to know if I ever use attachments if I'm likely to get into the
similar situation.

Thanks!

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Posted by Jan Groshan on June 30, 2009, 9:16 pm

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I manually moved the files. (Not with Explorer, but through "My Computer".)
The answer to the problem was that the folder that contained the 2007
accounts also needed to have a folder titled ATTACH and in that folder is
where the 2007 attachments folder should be. Once I did that, things worked.
I've used attachments for the past few years and love the idea of having a
copy of the bill, receipt or check attached to the transaction. Before that
feature was available (scanning directly into Quicken) I was scanning all my
bills into separate folders. For one thing, it's a great saving of paper,
and for another, I didn't have to buy another filing cabinet to store all of
the old bills !

> Jan Groshan wrote:

>> Yes, I put the "2007" file found in the 'Attach" directory into the

>> same folder as the 2007 copy. It still said it couldn't find the

>> attachments....even though the attachment icon was in the register.

> Just somewhat following this, but when you had said "you moved...", did

> you use the Quicken utilities to do that, or did you MANUALLY do it using

> drag and drop with Windows Explorer? If the former, then I would think

> something is wrong if, after using Quicken's restore, it didn't completely

> do the job. If, OTOH, you MANUALLY copied things, than all bets are off.

> I just want to know if I ever use attachments if I'm likely to get into

> the similar situation.

> Thanks!

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> Regards -

> - Andrew

Posted by Andrew on July 1, 2009, 7:36 am

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Jan Groshan wrote:

> I manually moved the files. ...

Ah - ok. Well, I am not following 100% this thread, so the advice that I
often read about using the Quicken utilities (FILE-->FILE OPERATIONS-->COPY)
I trust would be the best way (if possible) to move an entire Quicken
fileset, including attachments would have been the better way to go, if
possible. One need not worry about the intricacies' of the Quicken topology.
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