Running Quicken on two computers

Posted by donhdoyle@yahoo.com on June 30, 2006, 12:31 am

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I'm going to be traveling and want to load Quicken data from my desktop
to my laptop, update on the road, and then go back to my laptop. What
do I need to do to make this work?

Posted by Bob Burns on June 30, 2006, 7:33 am

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donhdoyle@yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm going to be traveling and want to load Quicken data from my desktop

> to my laptop, update on the road, and then go back to my laptop. What

> do I need to do to make this work?

Set up a folder for your data; I use QDATA but anything will work. Then
find your Quicken files and copy them into QDATA. Then open your data
by using file-open from Quicken. Now copy QDATA to your laptop. Then
open QDATA from the laptop. When you come back, copy the QDATA from
laptop to desktop.

If you don't have a LAN to copy back and forth, use a thumb drive.

I hope I explained this so you can follow. I've been doing it for years
and am not clear on what I did to set it up.

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Bob Burns
Mill Hall PA
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Posted by donhdoyle@yahoo.com on June 30, 2006, 8:37 am

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All my Quicken Files are in c:My DocumentsQuicken and I find an
incredible array of files with widely ranging dates.

What you are saying is create a subdirectory named QDATA and place
WHICH files in them?

>From my latest session on Quicken I see four file types:

*.QDF
*.QEL
*.IDX
*.QPH

Are these the four I need to copy into QDATA and then transfer over to
my laptop in a similar file?

Thanks
Don

Posted by RWEmerson on July 4, 2006, 11:11 pm

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donhdoyle@yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm going to be traveling and want to load Quicken data from my desktop

> to my laptop, update on the road, and then go back to my laptop. What

> do I need to do to make this work?

I use FolderShare - <www.foldershare.com> - works well for me.