which files do I replace

Posted by R. C. White on November 21, 2006, 2:18 pm

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Hi, Lenny.

Jay Apple has given you some good information about the Quicken data files
and their contents.

There's an easy way to get from where you are to where you want to be. As I
understand your situation, you have reinstalled Q2001 on your reformatted
computer and have your prior Quicken (or QuickenW) folder intact on your
removable drive.

In Windows Explorer, just browse to your Quicken folder on the removable
drive and click on the *.qdf file you should find there. (QDATA.qdf unless
you have assigned a different name, as Jay said.)

That's it. Clicking any .qdf file should start Quicken with that file
loaded. When you Exit Quicken, it will save the .qdf file in your new
Quicken folder. Next time, you can just click the Quicken icon on your
desktop and it should load Quicken with that same file.

Then use Quicken's Backup (<Ctrl>+B or click Backup or File | Backup) and
for the Backup screen's destination, Browse to the folder where you want to
store a backup of your Quicken file. Your removable drive would be a good
choice, since you can remove the drive and store a copy of your Quicken data
separately from your computer. Backup strategies are a topic of their own;
let's not get into those now. But you should also find the QuickenBackup
folder on your removable drive, containing the set of most-recent automatic
backups that Q2001 had made before you copied the original Quicken folder
(including Backup and other sub-folders) to it.

As you probably know, a Quicken "file" is actually a set of related files:
the ones mentioned in Jay's post. In this newsgroup we often refer to the
group as a "fileset" to emphasize the we are talking about all of them and
not just the .qdf file. If you let Quicken do the file copying, backup,
etc., it will automatically handle the whole fileset, even though only the
.qdf file is mentioned. But if you use another tool, such as Windows
Explorer's drag'n'drop, you'll have to remember to indentify and copy all of
the individual files in the fileset. Quicken won't work right without the
entire set.

As Jay said, the specific files used in YOUR case depends on how YOU use
Quicken. And they sometimes vary with a new version of Quicken, so your
Q2001 files might not have the same extensions as my Q2007 files.

> Hi,

> I have been having a few problems with my computer so I have taken a

> straight copy of my quicken folder and put it onto a removable drive (I

> have quicken 2001). Now I have had to reformat the computer and have

> reinstalled the program. This has happened before and I think I just

> copied 3 files from the backed up folder into the newly created one

> replacing then new ones. Can someone please tell me which files I need to

> transfer over to bring my version of Quicken back to the state it was in

> last time I used it.

> Thanks

> Lenny

Posted by Lenny on November 22, 2006, 4:14 am

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fantastic advise and thorough explanations. Very much appeciated and easy to
understand. Thanks.

> Hi, Lenny.

> Jay Apple has given you some good information about the Quicken data files

> and their contents.

> There's an easy way to get from where you are to where you want to be. As

> I understand your situation, you have reinstalled Q2001 on your

> reformatted computer and have your prior Quicken (or QuickenW) folder

> intact on your removable drive.

> In Windows Explorer, just browse to your Quicken folder on the removable

> drive and click on the *.qdf file you should find there. (QDATA.qdf

> unless you have assigned a different name, as Jay said.)

> That's it. Clicking any .qdf file should start Quicken with that file

> loaded. When you Exit Quicken, it will save the .qdf file in your new

> Quicken folder. Next time, you can just click the Quicken icon on your

> desktop and it should load Quicken with that same file.

> Then use Quicken's Backup (<Ctrl>+B or click Backup or File | Backup) and

> for the Backup screen's destination, Browse to the folder where you want

> to store a backup of your Quicken file. Your removable drive would be a

> good choice, since you can remove the drive and store a copy of your

> Quicken data separately from your computer. Backup strategies are a topic

> of their own; let's not get into those now. But you should also find the

> QuickenBackup folder on your removable drive, containing the set of

> most-recent automatic backups that Q2001 had made before you copied the

> original Quicken folder (including Backup and other sub-folders) to it.

> As you probably know, a Quicken "file" is actually a set of related files:

> the ones mentioned in Jay's post. In this newsgroup we often refer to the

> group as a "fileset" to emphasize the we are talking about all of them and

> not just the .qdf file. If you let Quicken do the file copying, backup,

> etc., it will automatically handle the whole fileset, even though only the

> .qdf file is mentioned. But if you use another tool, such as Windows

> Explorer's drag'n'drop, you'll have to remember to indentify and copy all

> of the individual files in the fileset. Quicken won't work right without

> the entire set.

> As Jay said, the specific files used in YOUR case depends on how YOU use

> Quicken. And they sometimes vary with a new version of Quicken, so your

> Q2001 files might not have the same extensions as my Q2007 files.

>> Hi,

>> I have been having a few problems with my computer so I have taken a

>> straight copy of my quicken folder and put it onto a removable drive (I

>> have quicken 2001). Now I have had to reformat the computer and have

>> reinstalled the program. This has happened before and I think I just

>> copied 3 files from the backed up folder into the newly created one

>> replacing then new ones. Can someone please tell me which files I need to

>> transfer over to bring my version of Quicken back to the state it was in

>> last time I used it.

>> Thanks

>> Lenny