I have Quicken 2005 on my C drive which is nearly full. I'd like to install it on my slave D drive with plenty of room.
The installation program will only let me put it on C. I'd like to install the program on D and be sure it is working fine before removing it from C. I'd put the data on the D drive be restoring the backup.
How can I install the program on D while it's on C?
That's not my experience at all. I never install programs on C: unless there is no option. My current location is
E:\Finance\Quicken06
Before you say "Aha! I was talking about 2005!!", I've had Q on my E: drive for the past 1/2 dozen or so versions.....
Why not just move the database files to the D: drive? that will save a lot of space.... Then worry (if necessary) about the program files....
Just occurred to me that you might be talking about installing Q05 on the D: drive while it's still on C:. Not sure if that's even possible, but there really is no need to check to see if it works.... Just save (or copy/move) the database files. Then uninstall the program and install it on the D: drive. When you start Q, tell it you are using an existing database and point it to the correct location....
Regards, Hank Arnold
Alan Zengel wrote:
Since the installation will only allow you to put it on C then you are stuck with keeping it there unless there is a "custom" install option that will allow you to change it to the D drive.
I don't think that you can install it on D while it is on C because of the way it writes to the registry. I don't know if Q will allow multiple versions to be installed on the same computer like you can with Quickbooks.
I would go through your C drive and move all of your data files, documents, music and other personal stuff to the D drive to free up space. Uninstall any programs that you are not currently using. Empty your Temp folders including your Temp Internet Folders. Run a Disk clean up to compress old files, etc. Run a defrag on the drive when you are done. You may find that an afternoon of general housekeeping on the C drive is all that you need to do.
Hi, Alan.
No problem!
Like Hank, I've been installing successive versions of Quicken on successive versions of Windows since 1990. For over five years, I've been dual-booting multiple Windows versions. (I now have 32-bit WinXP on F: and 64-bit Vista beta on J:, for example.) But no matter where my operating system is installed, I always install Quicken into E:\QuickenW. That way, I can boot into WinXP in the morning and run Quicken to record some checks. Then I can reboot into Vista in the afternoon and see that my check register already includes those checks. No matter which operating system is running, my data files are always in E:\QuickenW, too, with Quicken's automatic backups in E\QuickenW\Backup and my manual backups in a couple of locations on other hard drives and CDs.
I've installed Quicken so many times that I should have the installation screens memorized, but I don't. But early on, it asks if you want to do a "typical" install or a "custom" install. If you choose "custom", you can choose where to install Quicken. The default, of course, is C:\Program Files\ Quicken (or QuickenW), but you can either type in or browse to any folder on any drive in your computer. Quicken doesn't really care; the default shown is only a suggestion.
After Quicken is installed and running, you can change the location of your data files easily. Perhaps the easiest is to use Quicken's File | Copy command to save your fileset (QDATA.qdf plus the related QDATA.* files) in your chosen new location. Then use File | Open to load that copy and work with it. When you close Quicken, it will save the current version of your file to that location. And that will be the default location each time you start Quicken - until you change it.
RC
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