MOving Quicken from one computer to another

I need to move Quicken 2005 from one computer that is ailing to another one that we just got. The new computer can read CDs but the old one can't write CDs. What do I need to move for QUicken to get all my current info, check registers, etc.? I don't want to move all the software obviously. I'm just going to reinstall that. Thanks.

Ken

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The Litwaks
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If you are willing to open the boxes, you could remove the hard drive in the old machine and add it as a second drive in the new one. Copy the account files and remove the drive.

Alternatively, connect the computers with a crossover cable and network them. Then copy/move the account files.

In either case, you will have to install Q on the new machine. Don't even think about trying to move the program....

Regards, Hank Arnold

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Hank Arnold

When my hard drive was failing 2 years ago, I took it to a local computer repair place. I had them backup everything under my userid in Local Settings to DVD. They did it by hooking up the laptop to their network and copied the files to a server for safe keeping. Because my hard drive was failing, my CD burner would not successfully burn CDs because it uses temp space as it burns.

Other options: USB flash drive, network 2 computers using a router

If the drive is truly dying, only use the machine to copy the contents off of it. Trying to write to the drive *can* speed up the dying process so use the computer as little as possible.

Reply to
Laura

Three other options:

Do you have any other media that can be written from the old and read from the new (ie: like floppy drives?). You can use that.

How about a detachable drive that plugs into USB ports? I use a Seagate external Hard Drive primarily as a backup drive, plus it's easy to unplug and plug into another machine if I wish to read it from there as well.

Or you can *consider* emailing yourself the Quicken fileset (typically everything under your file name and *all* the extensions, such as qdata.qdf, qdata.qel, qdata.qtx., etc. etc. ) and pull the email back onto the new computer. You might wish to encrypt the data first so you're not sending your financial info over the internet (even if it is to yourself, it still goes thru routers and ends up on some server....) in the clear. We just had a discussion in this forum about the appropriateness of emailing Quicken files, so read that. I only point this out as a suggestion - YMMV.

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Andrew

Still another possibility besides all that hve been mentioned here: One of those free online storage sites, along the lines of

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.Upload your files to the site from the old computer, then download to the new one. I hope you have broadband capability, because it's a lot of stuff to be sending. Also, at the very least, password-protect the files. If you have the capability, encrypt it as well.

Reply to
DP

You could try the low tech solution..... Just e-mail tha data files to your self and download them on to the new PC

Peter Posting from Peter Rogers

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Peter Rogers

Peter - I suggested that already yesterday with caveats. Did you see my post?

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Andrew

Golly, why would Peter want to suggest the same answer that Andrew had already posted, had Peter known about it?

And why does Andrew want to call attention to the fact that two people gave the same answer?

And does Andrew recognize that different news servers are at different states of update - i.e., that Andrew's answer may not have been visible to Peter at the time Peter wrote?

Or maybe Peter responded to the question before looking at the entire string of replies. BFD.

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Rob Lindauer

Or maybe Peter, like most of the world, has Andrew on ignore.

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bjn

Certainly possible! Just checking to make sure that I had thought my post made it originally.

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Andrew

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