Australian version upgrade help

Posted by Rock on December 14, 2007, 1:32 am

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Hi,

This has been in another thread for a while, but I think as it is an Australian
version issue it will hopefully get more attention from any Aussies in the group.

Anyway..

I have the Australian version 7.4 after a couple of updates and it works fine
on my old c; drive with XP Pro. It has about 5 years of our books on it.

I have just bought a new bigger HD and want to upgrade to Quicken 2003 I had
bought new some time ago but never wanted to face the upgrade problems with it
so it is still unused and ready to go. Even now I am not looking forward to
going up to 7.5 then 7.6 etc., then 2002 then finally to 2003. Whew!!

I have misplaced my original QB 7 CD and for the life of me can't find it,
altho' I have not stopped looking as it must be somewhere. As I still have my
serial, rego, group and other numbers, how can I get to use my upgrade?

I added the old C: drive with QB 7.4 on it as an external drive and then tried
to use the 2003 Upgrade but is said it couldn't find a registered version then
canceled the setup. Truth is, I DID have a registered version but it was on
another drive.

Is there a way I can get the Upgrade to 'see' my current QB so it will give me
the upgraded version on my new C" drive? Maybe I can copy some files over to
the new C:Drive so it can 'see' them??!!

If, not, it has been suggested that if I can buy cheap enough a version that
will take my 7.4 data from Ebay, then maybe that will get me off the hook.
But, why should I have to spend more.

Appreciate the help.. thanks.

rock in sydney oz

Posted by Rock on December 14, 2007, 5:31 am

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Rock wrote:

> Hi,

> This has been in another thread for a while, but I think as it is an

> Australian version issue it will hopefully get more attention from any

> Aussies in the group.

> Anyway..

> I have the Australian version 7.4 after a couple of updates and it works

> fine on my old c; drive with XP Pro. It has about 5 years of our books

> on it.

> I have just bought a new bigger HD and want to upgrade to Quicken 2003 I

> had bought new some time ago but never wanted to face the upgrade

> problems with it so it is still unused and ready to go. Even now I am

> not looking forward to going up to 7.5 then 7.6 etc., then 2002 then

> finally to 2003. Whew!!

> I have misplaced my original QB 7 CD and for the life of me can't find

> it, altho' I have not stopped looking as it must be somewhere. As I

> still have my serial, rego, group and other numbers, how can I get to

> use my upgrade?

> I added the old C: drive with QB 7.4 on it as an external drive and then

> tried to use the 2003 Upgrade but is said it couldn't find a registered

> version then canceled the setup. Truth is, I DID have a registered

> version but it was on another drive.

> Is there a way I can get the Upgrade to 'see' my current QB so it will

> give me the upgraded version on my new C" drive? Maybe I can copy some

> files over to the new C:Drive so it can 'see' them??!!

> If, not, it has been suggested that if I can buy cheap enough a version

> that will take my 7.4 data from Ebay, then maybe that will get me off

> the hook. But, why should I have to spend more.

> Appreciate the help.. thanks.

> rock in sydney oz

Well well well....

I found the CD didn't I? Yes I did and so I have set up all my current data on
the new drive okay.

Now I have to work out how to get my 7.4 data to 2003!!

Any ideas?

Posted by Han on December 14, 2007, 6:32 am

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> Now I have to work out how to get my 7.4 data to 2003!!

> Any ideas?

In US versions just opening the "old" file (set) with the new program will:
a) Save the old data set in a new BACKUP directory
b) Convert the old file set to the new format
c) Save the converted data set under the old name, but possibly with a new
extension. If I recall correctly, some time ago Quicken changed the
extension to qdf for the main file, bt that was quite some time ago.

HTH
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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Han on December 14, 2007, 6:35 am

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> @news.optusnet.com.au:

>> Now I have to work out how to get my 7.4 data to 2003!!

>> Any ideas?

> In US versions just opening the "old" file (set) with the new program

> will: a) Save the old data set in a new BACKUP directory

> b) Convert the old file set to the new format

> c) Save the converted data set under the old name, but possibly with a

> new extension. If I recall correctly, some time ago Quicken changed

> the extension to qdf for the main file, bt that was quite some time

> ago.

Some people have metioned that it might be necessary if you convert from
a very old version, to first convert to a version from a year in between
the very old one and the current one. Also, be sure to "validate" the
very old version using its Quicken program (in your case 7.4?). That
would prevent innocuous corruption (that does not oher 7.4) to be fatal
for the current version.
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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Rock on December 16, 2007, 4:15 pm

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Han wrote:

>> @news.optusnet.com.au:

>>> Now I have to work out how to get my 7.4 data to 2003!!

>>>

>>> Any ideas?

>>>

>> In US versions just opening the "old" file (set) with the new program

>> will: a) Save the old data set in a new BACKUP directory

>> b) Convert the old file set to the new format

>> c) Save the converted data set under the old name, but possibly with a

>> new extension. If I recall correctly, some time ago Quicken changed

>> the extension to qdf for the main file, bt that was quite some time

>> ago.

> Some people have metioned that it might be necessary if you convert from

> a very old version, to first convert to a version from a year in between

> the very old one and the current one. Also, be sure to "validate" the

> very old version using its Quicken program (in your case 7.4?). That

> would prevent innocuous corruption (that does not oher 7.4) to be fatal

> for the current version.

Thanks Han, but is all rather involved isn't it?

Surely they like every other program I use, could have made it easier and more
consumer friendly.

I have also checked and altho there are conflicting methods, it seems I have to
go from 7.5 to 7.5 then to 2001 then to my 2003 converting the data at every
step.

I only have my current 7.4 and my 2003 upgrade so I'm not sure how I am to do
all that!

Anyway, I'll keep looking for 'the' way I guess.

Thanks again