Moving quicken to new system

1) Backup the database 2) Make sure that you have the latest updates for your release of Q installed. 3) Backup the database again (different place). 4) Copy the database (use Q) to a different name 5) Run Validate on the copy 6) Attempt to fix any problems found in the master account 7) Backup the account files again (if needed) to another different place 8) Make another backup on a different media (have you noticed a trend here??) 9) Put the backups and copies on a media you can access (CD-R, for example) 10) Upgrade the system 11) Install Q and update it to the same level as before 12) Copy the last backup file to the new hard drive. Put it in the location where you want it. 13) Make sure that all the copied database files have the Read-Only attribute turned off 14) Launch Q and open the database.

A bit anal, but I always want several fallback positions during something like this.

Thanks Hank, I have done the below.

I have 2 Quicken files, one for me and one for my daughter. I copied both to different hard drive. I was able to successfully validate my daughter's copy, however on mine, I get a message " unable to validate, please contact intuit support". Strange... guess I will keep my fingers crossed. :)

Don Burnette

Hank Arnold wrote: