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Posted by R. C. White on June 5, 2007, 9:33 am
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Hi, Oilcan.
Thanks for the update. When I installed Q2007B into Vista Ultimate, it
"inherited" all the settings that I've been carrying forward for a decade or
more, so I haven't seen all Quicken's true defaults in a long time.
As I recall, the folder name QuickenW originated way back when the Windows
version first became available in the early '90s, to distinguish it from the
MS-DOS versions. I'm not sure what year they dropped the "W". Also, as
I've said before, when WinXP (or was it Win2K) introduced the "Program
Files" folder and Quicken began putting its folder there, I was still
dual-booting Win98 and using FAT(16), which could not handle folder names
that included spaces. So I created a new E:QuickenW folder that could be
accessed from both Win98 and WinXP, and that arrangement has persisted
through many versions of Quicken and Windows.
And, yes, Vista has changed the Users folders! Since I'm a one-man,
one-computer kind of guy with no users but me and no net but the Internet, I
never learned much about users and permissions and such. I still sometimes
have trouble finding where Vista has put some of my applications. But I
know where QuickenW is! ;<)
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)
> Hi R. C.
>
> Just fyi...I am in the process of migrating to a new laptop. I did a
> clean install of Q2007P without overriding any of the install paths on my
> new laptop. I am running Vista Ultimate. The install created a Quicken
> folder (not QuickenW) and when I set-up a TEST data file it ended up under
> > Users
> > MY PROFILE > Documents > Quicken. I thought this was a strange place to
> place the files, but this is where copied my data files from my old
> laptop.
>
>> Hi, Bill.
>>
>> You didn't tell us which operating system you are using, so I'm assuming
>> WinXP Pro. Also, I'm assuming all default settings for Quicken. I'm
>> using Quicken 2007 Basic in Vista Ultimate x64, so my screens will be
>> slightly different from yours.
>>
>> I'm not entirely clear on just what you are asking. But all versions of
>> Quicken for at least several years have, by default, stored the current
>> Quicken "file" right in the QuickenW folder; if you've changed the
>> default location, you'll need to tell us about that. (What Quicken calls
>> a "file" is actually a set of related files including *.qdf, plus some
>> others that vary depending on how YOU use Quicken - but you probably knew
>> all that.)
>>
>> In other words, your BILL.QDF file is probably in C:Program
>> FilesQuickenWBILL.QDF, and the related BILL.* files are there, too. In
>> addition to any backups that you may have made and put elsewhere, there
>> should be a C:Program FilesQuickenWBACKUP folder and that should list
>> 5 sets of backups, dated a week apart, starting no more than a week ago
>> and working backwards. Manual backups, of course, were put wherever YOU
>> decided, so we can't help you there.
>>
>> You should be able to browse to your latest good backup and Restore that.
>> Please don't use File | Open for that backup, because Quicken will
>> immediately change the file as it loads, making it unreliable as a backup
>> for the future. You might want to Restore an older backup first, just to
>> make sure that Quicken works properly with that. When you are reasonably
>> sure that any downloading problems are cleared up in that earlier file,
>> you can restore your latest file to see if the problems have cleared
>> there, too. I don't download transactions, so I can't help much with your
>> specific problem, but there are others here who know a lot more about
>> that and I'm sure some of them will chime in.
>>
>> RC
>>
>>>I had [have] a problem dowloading transactions. In attempting to clear
>>> this problem I screwed up the access to the current data base. Could
>>> someone provide me with the routing to the correct data base [file] in
>>> Quicken2005 DeLuxe. I think I'm using the backup file for my current
>>> transactions. I'm afraid I'll lose all my data if I mess it up
>>> further. Thanks, Bill
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