Using Quicken 2009. I have prior years' information backed up (copied) by year, along with the attachments relating to the various transactions. I have moved each year into its own folder. I recently needed to find a scanned item in my 2007 transactions but I couldn't figure out how to get the attachments to be "available". How can I restore a prior year's file copy and have the attachments available as well?
Jan: When you moved the files, did you also move the corresponding Quicken\Attach\ folder that contains the actual attachments? Bob
Yes, I put the "2007" file found in the 'Attach" directory into the same folder as the 2007 copy. It still said it couldn't find the attachments....even though the attachment icon was in the register.
Jan: I haven't tried this, so this is theoretical on my part. I THINK, you need to create an Attach folder in whatever folder your 2007 file is. In that Attach folder you need a separate folder called 2007. In that folder you may have 2 folders named Acct and Txn. It is in those Acct and Txn that you will have hexadecimal named folders. In those folders will be the attachments themselves.
I believe you have to copy that entire structure to wherever you moved the files in order to see the attachments.
Bob
I'll give it a try Bob. Thanks.
IT WORKED ! I thought I had tried that, but you included one extra step......inside the Attach folder is the 2007Copy folder and inside that folder are the Acct and Txn folders. I was putting those last two folders into just the Attach folder. Thank you soooooo much for your "theorizing" !
Just somewhat following this, but when you had said "you moved...", did you use the Quicken utilities to do that, or did you MANUALLY do it using drag and drop with Windows Explorer? If the former, then I would think something is wrong if, after using Quicken's restore, it didn't completely do the job. If, OTOH, you MANUALLY copied things, than all bets are off.
I just want to know if I ever use attachments if I'm likely to get into the similar situation.
Thanks!
I manually moved the files. (Not with Explorer, but through "My Computer".) The answer to the problem was that the folder that contained the 2007 accounts also needed to have a folder titled ATTACH and in that folder is where the 2007 attachments folder should be. Once I did that, things worked. I've used attachments for the past few years and love the idea of having a copy of the bill, receipt or check attached to the transaction. Before that feature was available (scanning directly into Quicken) I was scanning all my bills into separate folders. For one thing, it's a great saving of paper, and for another, I didn't have to buy another filing cabinet to store all of the old bills !
Ah - ok. Well, I am not following 100% this thread, so the advice that I often read about using the Quicken utilities (FILE-->FILE OPERATIONS-->COPY) I trust would be the best way (if possible) to move an entire Quicken fileset, including attachments would have been the better way to go, if possible. One need not worry about the intricacies' of the Quicken topology.
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