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Posted by R. C. White on February 7, 2007, 12:03 am
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Hi, Gary.
Thanks for the report back. I'm glad you got it working. ;<)
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)
> I'm happy to report that this was fairly easy to solve on my own.
>
> For some reason, there was a zero-byte file in my Quicken data folder
> called ".QPH" (no filename, just the extension) in addition to the usual
> "QDATA.QPH" file.
>
> I deleted ".QPH" and overwrote all my other Quicken data files with my
> last good backup, then opened Quicken 2007 by double-clicking on
> "QDATA.QDF" from within Windows Explorer, per RC's suggestion.
>
> Happily, everything worked and I'm back in business.
>
>
>> Hi, Gary.
>>
>>> Anyone out there who upgraded to Vista successfully?
>>
>> Sure. Most of us, I suspect.
>>
>> Oh. You said "upgraded". I was never able to "upgrade". All through
>> the beta testing (over a dozen install-Vista-beta, install-Quicken)
>> cycles over a year-and-a-half, I always did a clean install of Vista, and
>> then a fresh install of Quicken (and other applications). And I've
>> installed the final ("gold", RTM) version of Vista Ultimate x64 (and x86)
>> a couple of times, followed by installation of Quicken each time. Each
>> time I've tried to "upgrade" to Vista, Setup told me that Upgrade had
>> been disabled, so I did the clean install, usually reformatting the
>> target volume.
>>
>> It seems strange that the rest of Quicken would upgrade for you, but not
>> the *.qph file, which stores the historical prices. I thought that an
>> upgrade of Vista would migrate my Registry settings for Quicken, but
>> would not change the contents or location of the QuickenW folder,
>> including (by default) all the QDATA.* files.
>>
>> HOW did you upgrade to Vista? HOW did you open your Quicken data file
>> for the first time after the upgrade?
>>
>>> My QDATA file is about 15 MB. When I tried to open Quicken and restore
>>> the backup, it cranked away at it for over two hours, then crashed.
>>
>> The best way that I've found to open my data file after the
>> install-Vista/install-Quicken operation is to use Windows Explorer to
>> navigate to QuickenW and click on the QDATA.qdf file. This starts
>> Quicken with that file loaded, including all the related files in the
>> QDATA.* fileset.
>>
>> Since the retail versions of Vista arrived just last week, you are in the
>> first wave of upgraders. I hope your experience will help others to
>> avoid problems of transitioning to Quicken in Vista. It might help if
>> you tell us more details about your system, such as, what was your
>> previous OS (Win9x? WinXP Home? WinXP Pro?); how many HDs and how are
>> they partitioned; did you upgrade over that OS in the same volume (C:?),
>> or install Vista into a different volume (D:? E:? X:?); what kind of
>> computer and operating system (32-bit or 64-bit?; brand-name or
>> homebuilt?); and other information that might be important to another
>> upgrader.
>>
>> RC
>>
>>
>>>I just upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium. I already had Quicken
>>>2007 (R4), and when I opened it for the first time in Vista, all my
>>>historical stock prices were GONE. I have tried to re-download the last
>>>couple years but no luck yet.
>>>
>>> My investment performance reports are pretty meaningless without
>>> historical data, plus I have a non-publicly quoted fund in my 401k for
>>> which the data is now lost.
>>>
>>> Anyone out there who upgraded to Vista successfully?
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