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Posted by Alan Zengel on June 17, 2006, 7:37 pm
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I have Quicken 2005 on my C drive which is nearly full. I'd like to install
it on my slave D drive with plenty of room.
The installation program will only let me put it on C. I'd like to install
the program on D and be sure it is working fine before removing it from C.
I'd put the data on the D drive be restoring the backup.
How can I install the program on D while it's on C?
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Posted by Hank Arnold on June 18, 2006, 3:44 am
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That's not my experience at all. I never install programs on C: unless
there is no option. My current location is
E:FinanceQuicken06
Before you say "Aha! I was talking about 2005!!", I've had Q on my E:
drive for the past 1/2 dozen or so versions.....
Why not just move the database files to the D: drive? that will save a
lot of space.... Then worry (if necessary) about the program files....
Just occurred to me that you might be talking about installing Q05 on
the D: drive while it's still on C:. Not sure if that's even possible,
but there really is no need to check to see if it works.... Just save
(or copy/move) the database files. Then uninstall the program and
install it on the D: drive. When you start Q, tell it you are using an
existing database and point it to the correct location....
Regards,
Hank Arnold
Alan Zengel wrote:
> I have Quicken 2005 on my C drive which is nearly full. I'd like to install
> it on my slave D drive with plenty of room.
>
> The installation program will only let me put it on C. I'd like to install
> the program on D and be sure it is working fine before removing it from C.
> I'd put the data on the D drive be restoring the backup.
>
> How can I install the program on D while it's on C?
>
>
>
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Posted by R. C. White on June 19, 2006, 1:04 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi, Alan.
No problem!
Like Hank, I've been installing successive versions of Quicken on successive
versions of Windows since 1990. For over five years, I've been dual-booting
multiple Windows versions. (I now have 32-bit WinXP on F: and 64-bit Vista
beta on J:, for example.) But no matter where my operating system is
installed, I always install Quicken into E:QuickenW. That way, I can boot
into WinXP in the morning and run Quicken to record some checks. Then I can
reboot into Vista in the afternoon and see that my check register already
includes those checks. No matter which operating system is running, my data
files are always in E:QuickenW, too, with Quicken's automatic backups in
EQuickenWBackup and my manual backups in a couple of locations on other
hard drives and CDs.
I've installed Quicken so many times that I should have the installation
screens memorized, but I don't. But early on, it asks if you want to do a
"typical" install or a "custom" install. If you choose "custom", you can
choose where to install Quicken. The default, of course, is C:Program
Files Quicken (or QuickenW), but you can either type in or browse to any
folder on any drive in your computer. Quicken doesn't really care; the
default shown is only a suggestion.
After Quicken is installed and running, you can change the location of your
data files easily. Perhaps the easiest is to use Quicken's File | Copy
command to save your fileset (QDATA.qdf plus the related QDATA.* files) in
your chosen new location. Then use File | Open to load that copy and work
with it. When you close Quicken, it will save the current version of your
file to that location. And that will be the default location each time you
start Quicken - until you change it.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
(Retired - no longer licensed to practice)
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
>I have Quicken 2005 on my C drive which is nearly full. I'd like to
>install it on my slave D drive with plenty of room.
>
> The installation program will only let me put it on C. I'd like to
> install the program on D and be sure it is working fine before removing it
> from C. I'd put the data on the D drive be restoring the backup.
>
> How can I install the program on D while it's on C?
>
>
>
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