I have had many of the complaints about Quicken that have long been an issue in this forum. So I have remained on Q98 on my Windows 2000 computer. Recently, I have been more concerned about having my financial data in an unsupported data format. Therefore when I upgraded to a new computer with Windows 7, I decided to upgrade to Quicken 2011.
Surely, there are a number of others who have long avoided upgrading Quicken. Let me payback the news group for the information I have learned since the days when Bruce Lee was the most significant contributor.
Here is the process I used to successfully migrate my data from Q98 to Q11.
1) Read 'Quicken 2012: The Official Guide' by Bobbi Sandberg 2) Appendix B had a subsection: Converting Your Older Quicken Files to a New Computer where it states: Use Quicken 2004 as an intermediate program for Quicken 2005 and later 3) Download Q04 from
formatting link
was unable to find this web page with Google search)4) I installed Q04 onto the new computer; restored my Q98 data frombackup. Q04 did the conversion just fine.(BTW: I could not get Q04 loaded on my Win2k computer; never seriouslytried to track that down)The Q98 backup was created by copying the quicken data files to a CDand the loading the files onto the new computer.5) Loaded Q11 was then able to see all the data. This process we surprisingly painless, except for the sidetrack where I tried to load Q04 onto my old Win 2k computer.