A multiple hardware failure prevented me from using my LAN to place a backup copy of my Quicken 2008HB files from my XP machine to my new Vista so I installed the program on the Vista machine and was finally able to place a copy of the working file (not the backup) into the Quicken directory installed on the Vista machine. From what I’ve read over the years here, this should fire right up without incident and permit me to carry on without missing a beat. Am I right? If not, what do I need to do?
Backup vs Copy on New Machine
Aug 07, 2009
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jaygreg wrote in news:4ab32b03-c2b7-48f5-9708- snipped-for-privacy@n2g2000vba.googlegroups.com:
It might be best if you could validate a copy on the old machine first. I use shortcuts to the relevant qdf file to start quicken. Thereby you can use multiple quicken data sets easily, without loading one data set, then switching and loading aanother one.
That is basically what I did when I got a new machine last year. I copied the entire quicken data folder including backup folder to the new computer and opened the file from there. No problems. I have also copied the current files back to the old laptop because I wanted to switch what machine I was using for Quicken.
I have copied the files over the network as well as used a USB flash drive. Made no difference.
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