Lost data

no_one@no_where.invalid wrote in news:assf54t0cmc6le4ov6qaq0iabjk5puqifs@

4ax.com:

Are your data on the same computer as the program? I'm asking because Quicken used to warn against using remote file storage over a network.

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I get so tired of scroll>Quicken 2008 running on Vista. My wife made a few entries and closed

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That is because people do not know how to snip the message they are replying to.

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No, all the files are in the same directory. When we did the conversion from 2005 to 2008 it also lost the financial data too. Suspect this is just another bug.

Excuse me, but it's a personal preference (as well as a religious war in USENET groups). See

where they cite that most people (including me, btw) prefer bottom posting. (I think one reads top down, usually, which IMO makes top postings unintelligible since I need to scroll down to get the thread, then scroll up to read top posts.)

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- Andrew

no_one@no_where.invalid wrote in news:1e0j54h5usk8v50s9lltmj490487ujedfc@

4ax.com:

I had no problems whatsoever when I upgraded to Q2008, and have not lost anything, except once. I don't remember the particulars, but I had a very recent backup on another machine. Copying that set of files, renaming them and starting up that set cost me no more than re-entering one days worth of data.

I think the original data set you worked with might have had data corruption. Older versions of Quicken were notorious (in my opinion) for "hiding" corrupted data. That would only appear when you upgraded. In those days the advice was to use the older version of Quicken to validate the data set (and if necessary to supervalidate them) before upgrading, keeping backups of each version just in case. Then uninstalling the old version as best as you could, and installing the new version, preferably in a different location so as to force new registry entries.

It may be that you don't want to or cannot go back to the old version for validation. In that case I would certainly try to validate the data set you work with now (save a copy as backup before and after).

Also, Quicken might have been improperly closed to generate this corruption?? Do you have a backup from before this happened?

I've always argued that the first response to a posting should set the style. If it's a bottom post, then continue. If top, continue that style. What drives me crazy is the ones where people ignore it and top or bottom post everything. Try following *that* thread.... :-(

Hi Hank! Doesn't matter that much to me whichever way the thread goes....as I said, it's a religious war (I probably could have just as easily found a website bestowing the virtues of top posting!). It's just not as clear cut as 'do it my way'. Whatever floats your boat - I wouldn't preach either way "makes USENET better' and certainly wouldn't take someone else to task for going the (more popular) other way.

Enuf on THIS OT subject for me.