Lost Funds Quotes

I should have added, I know Q cuts off the price import capability after a couple of years, and I could download the appropriate information from another source, but that doesn't explain the loss of all quotes from my backup locations.

Your prices, and only your prices, are stored in the Windows file QDATA.QPH where QDATA is the name of your Quicken data (and QDATA.QDF is the name of your main Quicken data file).

If you lose thE QPH file, you will lose all your prices (Quicken will create a new, empty .QPH file if the file is missing when you start Quicken).

If you have a Quicken fileset that includes the QPH file, but it is only

If the QPH file is larger than 1kb, it may be corrupted; I know of no direct fix for corrupted QPH files, but there are a few indirect ways to get most (sometimes, almost all) of the old prices back. You can post back if you need assistance with that.

Thanks, I'll search through all of the backups, but, as the prices were present as of yesterday, I'd expect the older backup files to be OK, but they weren't when opened up via Q. - will report back tomorrow.

The few qph files I took a look at were around 1.04-5 MB in size(I hope you meant MB rather than KB!). I did click on one random qph file from a few days ago, expecting that XP would ask me what program to open it with, but Q opened, and the prices were back! I have no idea as to what's been going on with Q - it seems to work in strange and mysterious ways.

As to your offer above, I would appreciate your sending to me indirect ways I can some or all of the old prices back, for future reference, thanks again,

Dan Wenz

Quicken can import prices in a properly formatted comma separated values (csv) file. Yahoo and others can download such files. See Quicken Help > Search Quicken Help for "import prices".

Quicken can import prices in QIF file format; you could get those by exporting prices from another Quicken data fileset to a QIF file (Export "Security Lists").

Naturally, you can manually add prices to Quicken; either from the Security Detail View > (select security) > Update > Edit Price History, or on the Portfolio tab by selecting the appropriate "As of" date and key the prices in the row of the "Quote/Price" column.

One of the neatest ways to recover prices from an existing Quicken price history file (even one with some corruption, though the corrupted price records can't be recovered) is a free program called "The QPH File Processor". You can Google for it.

The QPH File Processor can read any QPH file; even if it is the only file out of the Quicken fileset that you have. You don't even need Quicken installed on your pc. The QPH File Processor can select prices for specific securities and specific date ranges (or all securities, all date ranges), and write them to a comma separated values (csv) file ... which can be imported into Quicken. It will skip corrupted price records.

So basically, if you had a corrupted price history file, you could use QPF File Processor to pull all the non-corrupted price records off into a csv file; rename the corrupted QPH file; then import the csv file into Quicken to put back all the non-corrupted prices. This can often mean recovery of nearly 100% of the old prices (because, it seems, having only one corrupted price record can make most, or all, price data inaccessible to Quicken).

Etc.

Thanks, a keeper :-)