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security prices Tony 11-13-2006
Posted by Tony on November 13, 2006, 11:53 am
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 I upgraded from 2006 deluxe to 2007 deluxe. My 9 years of securities
price hitories didn't convert. In other words I have no securities
history at all. I know I can download historical prices but I really
need the price history iI have saved for the past nine years. Has
anyone had this problem and if so how did you reslove it?
Thanks, Tony

Posted by John Pollard on November 13, 2006, 12:51 pm
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>I upgraded from 2006 deluxe to 2007 deluxe. My 9 years of
>securities
> price hitories didn't convert. In other words I have no
> securities
> history at all. I know I can download historical prices but I
> really
> need the price history iI have saved for the past nine years.
> Has
> anyone had this problem and if so how did you reslove it?

If you lost or destroyed your price history file and you have no
backups, you're out of luck.

Price history doesn't "convert"; since about Q2001 it lives in
its own Quicken file and its format has not changed from version
to version. If that file was not available when you converted
your Q2006 data, you would be without prices.

Look in the folder where your Q2007 file is located, and look in
the folder Q06Files. See if you have a file with a "qph"
extension there. If so, rename the qph file in the Q2007
folder, then copy the qph file from the Q06Files folder to the
Q2007 folder. Start Quicken and see if your old prices are
there.

If there is no qph file in Q06Files, or if it does not recover
your prices, you can start searching elsewhere for qph files ...
try copying them into your Q2007 data folder, newest ones first.

[Quicken makes automatic backups every 7 days or so in a folder
named BACKUP in the folder where the data file open at the time
is located; that's one possible source of older price history
files. There may be one or more Q2006 qph files in that folder
you could use.]

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Posted by Tony on November 13, 2006, 5:16 pm
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Hi John, thanks for the quick re[ly. I do have multiple backups of the
2006 files. This was a clean install of 2007 on a new pc. I took the
files ending in qdf, qdp ,idx ,npc, qel from 2006 and copied them into
the new 2007 folder. Quicken then converted them to 2007. Thats when I
saw I lost all my prices.

I tried your suggestion and all it did was to ignore my 2006 qph file
and it created a new one eve after renaming the old 2007 qph file

I could do the whole thing over if need, step by step. What do you
suggest? I'll try anything as I really need my price history.

Thanks for you help, Quicken support couldn't help me.

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:51:42 GMT, "John Pollard"

>>I upgraded from 2006 deluxe to 2007 deluxe. My 9 years of
>>securities
>> price hitories didn't convert. In other words I have no
>> securities
>> history at all. I know I can download historical prices but I
>> really
>> need the price history iI have saved for the past nine years.
>> Has
>> anyone had this problem and if so how did you reslove it?
>
>If you lost or destroyed your price history file and you have no
>backups, you're out of luck.
>
>Price history doesn't "convert"; since about Q2001 it lives in
>its own Quicken file and its format has not changed from version
>to version. If that file was not available when you converted
>your Q2006 data, you would be without prices.
>
>Look in the folder where your Q2007 file is located, and look in
>the folder Q06Files. See if you have a file with a "qph"
>extension there. If so, rename the qph file in the Q2007
>folder, then copy the qph file from the Q06Files folder to the
>Q2007 folder. Start Quicken and see if your old prices are
>there.
>
>If there is no qph file in Q06Files, or if it does not recover
>your prices, you can start searching elsewhere for qph files ...
>try copying them into your Q2007 data folder, newest ones first.
>
>[Quicken makes automatic backups every 7 days or so in a folder
>named BACKUP in the folder where the data file open at the time
>is located; that's one possible source of older price history
>files. There may be one or more Q2006 qph files in that folder
>you could use.]


Posted by John Pollard on November 13, 2006, 8:37 pm
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> Hi John, thanks for the quick re[ly. I do have multiple
> backups of the
> 2006 files. This was a clean install of 2007 on a new pc. I
> took the
> files ending in qdf, qdp ,idx ,npc, qel from 2006 and copied
> them into
> the new 2007 folder. Quicken then converted them to 2007.
> Thats when I
> saw I lost all my prices.


> I tried your suggestion and all it did was to ignore my 2006
> qph file
> and it created a new one eve after renaming the old 2007 qph
> file

Possibly I did not make it clear.

The idea is to replace the Q2007.qph file with the Q2006.qph
file (or any qph file with the right prices) ... while not
deleting either existing file. When you finish, the copy of the
old price history file (with the correct prices) must have the
exact same name as your current Q2007 price history file (the
one you rename as the first step). Then Quicken will not - can
not - create a "new" Q2007 price history file.

If you start with something like the followiing (there may be
more files in your filesets, they're not material, I'm just
trying to keep it short) - where your Q2007 data is in the
folder C:Quicken:

C:Quickenqdata.qdf
C:Quickenqdata.qph
C:Quickenqdata.qel
C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qdf
C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qph
C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qel

You would:

rename C:Quickenqdata.qph C:Quickenqdata.qph.bak
copy C:QuickenQ06Files.qph C:Quickenqdata.qph

Then start Quicken and open C:Quickenqdata.qdf

If you do that, Quicken will not create another qph file for
your Q2007 data ... it can't be done because you can't have two
files with the same name.

> I could do the whole thing over if need, step by step. What do
> you
> suggest? I'll try anything as I really need my price history.



Posted by Tony on November 13, 2006, 8:49 pm
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Thanks for your help, I finally got it to work. I reinstalled 07 using
the pertanent data files from 06. The first time I somehow left out
the qph file. After reading your advice I figured it out.

Thanks again.

Tony

wrote:

>
>> Hi John, thanks for the quick re[ly. I do have multiple
>> backups of the
>> 2006 files. This was a clean install of 2007 on a new pc. I
>> took the
>> files ending in qdf, qdp ,idx ,npc, qel from 2006 and copied
>> them into
>> the new 2007 folder. Quicken then converted them to 2007.
>> Thats when I
>> saw I lost all my prices.
>
>
>> I tried your suggestion and all it did was to ignore my 2006
>> qph file
>> and it created a new one eve after renaming the old 2007 qph
>> file
>
>Possibly I did not make it clear.
>
>The idea is to replace the Q2007.qph file with the Q2006.qph
>file (or any qph file with the right prices) ... while not
>deleting either existing file. When you finish, the copy of the
>old price history file (with the correct prices) must have the
>exact same name as your current Q2007 price history file (the
>one you rename as the first step). Then Quicken will not - can
>not - create a "new" Q2007 price history file.
>
>If you start with something like the followiing (there may be
>more files in your filesets, they're not material, I'm just
>trying to keep it short) - where your Q2007 data is in the
>folder C:Quicken:
>
>C:Quickenqdata.qdf
>C:Quickenqdata.qph
>C:Quickenqdata.qel
>C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qdf
>C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qph
>C:QuickenQ06Filesqdata.qel
>
>You would:
>
>rename C:Quickenqdata.qph C:Quickenqdata.qph.bak
>copy C:QuickenQ06Files.qph C:Quickenqdata.qph
>
>Then start Quicken and open C:Quickenqdata.qdf
>
>If you do that, Quicken will not create another qph file for
>your Q2007 data ... it can't be done because you can't have two
>files with the same name.
>
>> I could do the whole thing over if need, step by step. What do
>> you
>> suggest? I'll try anything as I really need my price history.
>


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