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Categories lost on upgrading

I have purchased every upgrade of Quicken since it started. Up until version 8 the upgrades worked well. But upgrading from version 8 to 2000 resulted in the loss of about half of my categories from the register transactions. That is the categories still exist in the categories list but the transactions that origionally had those categories in vers 8 were uncategorised after upgrading. Becaus one of my quicken data files was far too big to manually re-enter these categories I have maintained vers 8 just for this data and continued to upgrade another instalation (now vers 2006 pesonal plus) to run my other quicken files in which I manually re-enterd the categories. I would dearly love to import this first data to 2006 but need to know some way to iether prevent the category loss or a simple way to re-establish the categories once I have upgraded. Intuit were unable to assist me. Has anybody else had this problem or know of a solution? Pete

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pmg
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Intuit offers free "trial" versions of older Quicken versions for use as intermediate steps in conversions. You could try using Q98, Q99, Q2001, or Q2002 to see if they would help. Try this link

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If that link doesn't take you to the trial version choices, go to the Intuit support site, find the "Search" and search for "trial".

But now that I have typed all that, I notice you say you are using Q2006 Personal Plus: isn't that an Australian version or some such? If so, forget the above as I fairly certain all the choices there are US versions of Quicken; look on the Australian support site for something similar, or plan to look on eBay for cheap intermediate versions.

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John Pollard

Thanks John Yes, I use the Australian versions. Originally I upgraded from vers 8 to the next upgrade (I forget the version name) and that's when the data was lost. I have all the original installation CD's still. I contacted Intuit and they could not understand why. Their best suggestion was to send my data files to them and they would attempt to retieve the categories. Because I would have been without my data for a couple of weeks I opted to continue with vers 8 for my main data files. But of course now vers 8 is a bit outdated and the conversion seems much more important. I don't understand why all of my data groups (three of them) had this problem and this involved two separate installations of Quicken

8 (two different machines). Because two groups of data were much smaller I opted to upgrade that version of Quicken and manually re-instate the categories. Cheers, Peter
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pmg

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