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Posted by R. C. White on March 28, 2008, 8:59 am
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Hi, nanox2000.
HOW did you search for .qdf files?
There are a lot of ways to look for files on a hard drive. You did not tell
us what method(s) you used. So maybe you've already tried what I'm about to
suggest. But it is as near failure-proof as any method I know. I often
call it "the brute force method", using the old MS-DOS commands that most of
us have forgotten - or never knew - in a Command Prompt windows, which many
of us call the "DOS window", even though we know it isn't really MS-DOS at
all. The easiest way to open a Command Prompt window, just type "cmd" into
the Search box and press Enter.
In the Command Prompt window, type:
dir c:*.qdf /s /a
If you have a large drive with lots of files, you may have time for a cup of
coffee. And if you have multiple drives, you have to search each one
separately. But if you want to limit the search, you can specify the folder
or folders where the files might be.
As Han said, the list of files that you put into your last message is
useless for this purpose. Those are the executable files that actually run
Quicken and we all have an identical list on our own computers - and they
have nothing to do with your data.
Installing Quicken again on your computer - or on your friend's IBM - would
do you no good at all. The only useful file(s) for you are the .qdf file
and possibly a couple of related files with the same name and different
extensions.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
> Hi RC, yes, I was talking to you, but my sincere thanks to everyone
> kind enough to respond.
>
> Oddly I could not find a QDATA.QDF file, any .qdf files at all, or any
> "backup" directory. I certainly used it for over a week though! A
> couple years? I searched myself and with the auto "finder," but I
> copied and pasted the list of files here anyway in case I'm totally
> nuts, missed it, or it might be of use.
>
> I would hate to install Windows on my PC just to view this file once.
> I mean that's all I really want, I could write it down by hand it need
> be, it's just a couple pages...
>
> Is this insane -- to email my Quicken directory to a family member
> with an IBM, ask them to run it and look at it? I mean, would that
> work?
>
> The data is extremely impersonal, I don't even think it has my name
> much less a bank account... I really used it like a notebook to jot
> down money in, out, and date, only I wouldn't be able to lose it,
> which obviously backfired...
>
> My quicken directory:
>
> xsell.dll
<SNIP>
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Posted by nanox2000 on March 28, 2008, 10:07 am
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To recap, I now have a MAC, so no shelling to DOS, fake or otherwise
for me.
I am searching the harddrive I yanked out of my old (dead, Windows)
computer and hooked up via USB to this MAC.
I don't want to run Quicken on a MAC or IBM, I don't really care about
Quicken per se, I just want the the information I entered into Quicken
on my old (dead, Windows) computer anyway way I can get it.
I never did save or backup in Quicken. When I opened quicken (on my
old Windows computer) I choose from the 4 accounts I had created.
When I exited it asked if I wanted to back up, I said no. When I
opened Quicken again, and choose the account again, it would have the
information I entered last time, so yes, I realize it was somehow
saving it.
MAC is a new and somewhat scary environment for me. The search I was
using is "finder," it is literally called that.
This finder works great on this MAC, and on the other, proper 30 gig
external hard drive I have hooked up.
I realized just now -- it does not work AT ALL on the 80 gig hard
drive I pulled out of my old computer and hooked up to this MAC. In
other words, I do not know how to automatically search the drive that
contains my Quicken information.
That may be a mini-project that requires completion before continuing
here, but in the meantime I figure it is at least worth asking --
1) Given that I never explicitly saved anything in Quicken, and my
QDATA.QDF file is not in my Quicken directory, is it safe to assume
Quicken saved this file to a directory other than Quicken?
2) If so, is there some default location I can check by hand, since I
do not seem to have the ability to search this hard disk
automatically?
Thank you for your help and patience!
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Posted by Oilcan on March 28, 2008, 8:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options Try looking for the files in your documents folder. There are several
files - the easiest one to find would be qdf. Then note the filename as you
would want all of the remaining files that have the same filename. For
example. Oilcan.qdf. I would then need all files that have the filename
Oilcan.*. The number of files may vary depending on your Quicken version
and the functionality you used.
Oilcan
> To recap, I now have a MAC, so no shelling to DOS, fake or otherwise
> for me.
>
> I am searching the harddrive I yanked out of my old (dead, Windows)
> computer and hooked up via USB to this MAC.
>
> I don't want to run Quicken on a MAC or IBM, I don't really care about
> Quicken per se, I just want the the information I entered into Quicken
> on my old (dead, Windows) computer anyway way I can get it.
>
> I never did save or backup in Quicken. When I opened quicken (on my
> old Windows computer) I choose from the 4 accounts I had created.
> When I exited it asked if I wanted to back up, I said no. When I
> opened Quicken again, and choose the account again, it would have the
> information I entered last time, so yes, I realize it was somehow
> saving it.
>
> MAC is a new and somewhat scary environment for me. The search I was
> using is "finder," it is literally called that.
>
> This finder works great on this MAC, and on the other, proper 30 gig
> external hard drive I have hooked up.
>
> I realized just now -- it does not work AT ALL on the 80 gig hard
> drive I pulled out of my old computer and hooked up to this MAC. In
> other words, I do not know how to automatically search the drive that
> contains my Quicken information.
>
> That may be a mini-project that requires completion before continuing
> here, but in the meantime I figure it is at least worth asking --
>
> 1) Given that I never explicitly saved anything in Quicken, and my
> QDATA.QDF file is not in my Quicken directory, is it safe to assume
> Quicken saved this file to a directory other than Quicken?
>
> 2) If so, is there some default location I can check by hand, since I
> do not seem to have the ability to search this hard disk
> automatically?
>
> Thank you for your help and patience!
>
>
>
>
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Posted by Han on March 28, 2008, 9:39 pm
Please log in for more thread options nanox2000@gmail.com wrote in news:c585a6da-cd42-4756-beef-f6b6acaec655
@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
> This finder works great on this MAC, and on the other, proper 30 gig
> external hard drive I have hooked up.
So you know how to search. Good, and I am not making fun.
> I realized just now -- it does not work AT ALL on the 80 gig hard
> drive I pulled out of my old computer and hooked up to this MAC. In
> other words, I do not know how to automatically search the drive that
> contains my Quicken information.
I don't know how to work a Mac, but I think that finder should be able to
find files. Did you try, just for fun "*.*" without the quotes, on the
old PC drive? It at least should give you a lot of files.
The file that holds (in Q2008 - PC) the data for the last 4 accessed
files is quser.ini, I believe. It is a simple text file, and the Mac
should be able to open it. To just make sure it is not accidentally
saved over, make a copy of it before opening it with whatever textreader
your Mac uses.
The problem, as you say between the lines, is that the old PC is dead.
However, I don't remember whether the hard drive died, or the
powersupply, or the motherboard crapped out? This could be important for
us to help you more.
> That may be a mini-project that requires completion before continuing
> here, but in the meantime I figure it is at least worth asking --
>
> 1) Given that I never explicitly saved anything in Quicken, and my
> QDATA.QDF file is not in my Quicken directory, is it safe to assume
> Quicken saved this file to a directory other than Quicken?
I would think so. As Oilcan said, try looking in the My Documents
folder, or whatever path would lead there (it could depend on the version
of Windows you had). The files referenced in quser.ini should be on the
old drive.
> 2) If so, is there some default location I can check by hand, since I
> do not seem to have the ability to search this hard disk
> automatically?
I think that if the drive is not kaput, you should be able to search for
files on it. But I admit, even with the supposedly improved Vista search
capabilities, I can hardly find anything. At least on my old XP machine
I can get along with the built-in search functions.
> Thank you for your help and patience!
>
I'm not known to be patient, so don't thank me <wink>.
--
Best regards
Han
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Posted by R. C. White on March 28, 2008, 9:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi, nanox2000.
Did you even try what I suggested:
dir c:*.qdf /s/a
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
> To recap, I now have a MAC, so no shelling to DOS, fake or otherwise
> for me.
>
> I am searching the harddrive I yanked out of my old (dead, Windows)
> computer and hooked up via USB to this MAC.
>
> I don't want to run Quicken on a MAC or IBM, I don't really care about
> Quicken per se, I just want the the information I entered into Quicken
> on my old (dead, Windows) computer anyway way I can get it.
>
> I never did save or backup in Quicken. When I opened quicken (on my
> old Windows computer) I choose from the 4 accounts I had created.
> When I exited it asked if I wanted to back up, I said no. When I
> opened Quicken again, and choose the account again, it would have the
> information I entered last time, so yes, I realize it was somehow
> saving it.
>
> MAC is a new and somewhat scary environment for me. The search I was
> using is "finder," it is literally called that.
>
> This finder works great on this MAC, and on the other, proper 30 gig
> external hard drive I have hooked up.
>
> I realized just now -- it does not work AT ALL on the 80 gig hard
> drive I pulled out of my old computer and hooked up to this MAC. In
> other words, I do not know how to automatically search the drive that
> contains my Quicken information.
>
> That may be a mini-project that requires completion before continuing
> here, but in the meantime I figure it is at least worth asking --
>
> 1) Given that I never explicitly saved anything in Quicken, and my
> QDATA.QDF file is not in my Quicken directory, is it safe to assume
> Quicken saved this file to a directory other than Quicken?
>
> 2) If so, is there some default location I can check by hand, since I
> do not seem to have the ability to search this hard disk
> automatically?
>
> Thank you for your help and patience!
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