Restore Problems Quicken 2000

Posted by Stubby on April 18, 2008, 8:50 am

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> John Pollard wrote:

> > The QPH file is the price history file; if one has prices

> > older

> > than 5 years, or prices for securities not downloadable via

> > Quicken quote downloads, then the price history can be fairly

> > important.

> I meant to add that there is no QPH file for Q2000 (so the op

> shouldn't be worried at not finding one); that came along later

> ... either Q2001 or Q2002.

I suggest you run a File>Validate on a copy of your data file. Also, a
Super Validate function (hold down shift while clicking on the command).
This function should pick up the pieces and make a useable fileset out of
them, but it can't do magic. For instance if you turned off your computer
while a file was being saved, it's not going to invent missing data.

Posted by Andrew on April 18, 2008, 7:32 pm

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John Pollard wrote:

> The index file is totally unnecessary; if not present, Quicken

> rebuilds it.

Thanks for the amplification John. Serious question, what if the index file
is present, but several versions downleveled from the singlely-restored QDF?
Is Q smart enough to 'know' the two don't go together?

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Posted by John Pollard on April 18, 2008, 8:59 pm

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Andrew wrote:

> John Pollard wrote:

>> The index file is totally unnecessary; if not present,

>> Quicken

>> rebuilds it.

> Thanks for the amplification John. Serious question, what if

> the

> index file is present, but several versions downleveled from

> the

> singlely-restored QDF? Is Q smart enough to 'know' the two

> don't go

> together?

I'm not sure I follow your question.

I always assume that one deals with a Quicken fileset; I never
assume one combines files from one fileset with files from
another fileset (though there are situations when one can do
that, if one knows what one is doing: see below).

Looking at this thread, as I originally understood it, the user
may not have had all the files available that make up a
legitmate fileset.

My comments related as follows:

1.) If you have a QDF file and no other files (from your Quicken
"fileset"), you can regain the vast majority of your original
Quicken data from just that QDF file - Quicken will "open" that
file (and may "restore" it; I haven't tried it).
2.) If you have a current-enough version of Quicken; you may be
able to, and should try to, recover your most recent QPH file
(even if it does not correlate directly to the QDF file (not
part of the fileset that the QDF file came from): QPH files will
"attach" to any QDF file that knows about QPH files ... Quicken
versions later than Q2000, I think; but defintely Quicken
versions Q2002 and later).
3.) The IDX file has never mattered in any verson of Quicken
that I have used.

If you are suggesting the there might be a problem if you had a
Quicken fileset that contained an IDX file that was totally
unrelated to the other files in the fileset; I can't answer your
question. But then: I can't think how that would happen.

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Posted by Andrew on April 19, 2008, 10:59 am

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John Pollard wrote:

> But then: I can't think how that would happen.

Just in the way that the OP might have inadvertently made this happen.

Suppose the fileset was several days/weeks old, and the OP *only* copied the
.qdf file as he originally was told all he to do. Then, the other files in
the fileset MIGHT be downleveled (this is all hypothetical of course). I
was just curious if you've ever had any experience with a 'mish-mush' of
files that do indeed 'complete' the entire fileset in name only, but their
dates (and thus, data consistently) are all out of whack!

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Posted by John Pollard on April 19, 2008, 9:21 pm

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Andrew wrote:

> John Pollard wrote:

>> But then: I can't think how that would happen.

> Just in the way that the OP might have inadvertently made this

> happen.

> Suppose the fileset was several days/weeks old, and the OP

> *only*

> copied the .qdf file as he originally was told all he to do.

> Then,

> the other files in the fileset MIGHT be downleveled (this is

> all

> hypothetical of course). I was just curious if you've ever

> had any

> experience with a 'mish-mush' of files that do indeed

> 'complete' the

> entire fileset in name only, but their dates (and thus, data

> consistently) are all out of whack!

If you only copy the qdf file, you don't have ANY "idx" file.

The only way to produce the result you opined would be to copy a
qdf file from one fileset, then copy an idx file from another
fileset.

It's not impossible to do: I just can't imagine the conditions
under which someone would do that.

[And even if you did that very strange thing: I'm not convinced
that it would create a problem for Quicken. Since it's so
unlikely, I'm not much interested in trying to check it out.]

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