Email quicken data file

Posted by mmurrell on October 26, 2009, 9:52 pm

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How do I e-mail a quicken data file?

Posted by mmurrell on October 26, 2009, 9:53 pm

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> How do I e-mail a quicken data file?

I am sorry, I should hav included this information in first post: I
am using Quicken Home and Business 2009 and Microsoft Outlook.

Posted by CSM1 on October 27, 2009, 10:52 am

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dfc5a99c0099@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:

>> How do I e-mail a quicken data file?

> I am sorry, I should hav included this information in first post: I

> am using Quicken Home and Business 2009 and Microsoft Outlook.

Quicken Data can be exported to a Text file in QIF format. It makes a
huge text file, You can reduce the amount of data included in the QIF
file. Then Email the QIF file.

Open your data:
File>Export>QIF file.

Having said that, you can (if the recipient has the same version of
Quicken) zip the contents of the Quicken files, there are five files.

The five files are (Located where you have the Data file OR in the
Quicken folder)
DataFilename.IDX
DataFilename.QDF
DataFilename.QEL
DataFilename.QPH
DataFilename.QTX

Then Email the Zip file.

If you have the data file passworded, you would also have to give the
recipient your password.

You could remove your password before you Zip the data files. Then no
password needed.

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Posted by mmurrell on October 27, 2009, 1:47 pm

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> The five files are (Located where you have the Data file OR in the

> Quicken folder)

> DataFilename.IDX

> DataFilename.QDF

> DataFilename.QEL

> DataFilename.QPH

> DataFilename.QTX

> Then Email the Zip file.

> If you have the data file passworded, you would also have to give the

> recipient your password.

> You could remove your password before you Zip the data files. Then no

> password needed.

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I have not noticed the QTX file before...only the other four. Do I
need to track down the .QTX file?

This is what I did.....I backed up the file to my desktop and then
attached the qdf file from my desktop to an e-mail. I sent this e-
mail with attachement to myself. I then opened the e-mail with
another computer and saved the file to the desktop of that computer.
Then I opened Quicken 2009 and did a filerestore browsing back to the
file on the desktop. All seemed to work well....Do I really have to
send the other three (or four) files? I am sending a file to an
attorney out of state who needs it quickly. He has asked for me to e-
mail him the quicken file. I have heard of problems in the past, but
ran this quick test, and it seemed to work with just the .qdf file.

What am I missing?

Posted by John Pollard on October 27, 2009, 9:37 pm

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mmurrell wrote:

>> The five files are (Located where you have the Data file OR in the

>> Quicken folder)

>> DataFilename.IDX

>> DataFilename.QDF

>> DataFilename.QEL

>> DataFilename.QPH

>> DataFilename.QTX

>> Then Email the Zip file.

>> If you have the data file passworded, you would also have to give the

>> recipient your password.

>> You could remove your password before you Zip the data files. Then no

>> password needed.

> I have not noticed the QTX file before...only the other four. Do I

> need to track down the .QTX file?

> This is what I did.....I backed up the file to my desktop and then

> attached the qdf file from my desktop to an e-mail. I sent this e-

> mail with attachement to myself. I then opened the e-mail with

> another computer and saved the file to the desktop of that computer.

> Then I opened Quicken 2009 and did a filerestore browsing back to the

> file on the desktop. All seemed to work well....Do I really have to

> send the other three (or four) files? I am sending a file to an

> attorney out of state who needs it quickly. He has asked for me to e-

> mail him the quicken file. I have heard of problems in the past, but

> ran this quick test, and it seemed to work with just the .qdf file.

You only have a QTX file if you ran the Tax Planner. You never need the
IDX file (Quicken will recreate it if it's missing).

The other two files would definitely be necessary for YOU, but may not be
necessary for your attorney. The QEL file contains your online account
setups and the identifiers of the transactions you've downloaded. And the
QPH file contains your security price history.

The only file that is absolutely required is the QDF file; if any of the
other regular files are missing, Quicken creates new ones next time you
run it: the new QEL and QPH files will be empty; the new IDX file will
have basically the same contents it had before. And Quicken won't create
a QTX file unless you run the Tax Planner.

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