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Posted by Steve Blake on July 13, 2007, 2:47 pm
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John Pollard wrote:
> Steve Blake wrote:
>> I have a large stock price history file for two reasons.
>> 1)Tracking
>> portfolio since 1990 and 2) I failed to quit downloading
>> quotes after
>> selling securities. I have now unchecked the securities for
>> downloading that I have sold. I also went in and deleted
>> thousands
>> of prices. The problem is that the size of the file did not
>> change. Is there any way to compact the file or any way to
>> make it smaller?
>
> Deleting prices in Quicken *may* reduce the time it takes
> Quicken to do certain tasks, even if the Windows price file
> remains the same size.
>
> But I don't know of anyway to reduce the size of the Windows
> file of Quicken prices ... except to create a new, empty, price
> file and add prices to it.
>
> While not necessarily as simple as deleting prices from within
> Quicken, it may not be as complex as it sounds.
>
> I think the general process would be to:
>
> 1.) Export prices - to QIF file - from current Quicken data
> (export "Security List")
> 2.) Delete unwanted prices from the QIF file (the hard part) ---
> but I think if you have already deleted those prices in Quicken,
> they should not export (I didn't test this)
> 3.) Create an empty Quicken price (qph) file (delete or rename
> the existing file, or create a new Quicken data file)
> 4.) Import the modified QIF file of prices into Quicken when
> Quicken has the empty price (QPH) file open
>
> The result would be a QPH file of just the prices you wanted; it
> could be used with any Quicken data fileset that had the same
> securities.
>
Thanks for the info. I'll give that a try when I have a chance.
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