I'm not sure what you mean by install these files but try these steps:
Open up My Computer and navigate to the CD. Copy the Quicken files to your hard drive into some place like "My Documents". Navigate to the copied file. right click on it, select Properties and uncheck the Read-only box. Now open up Quicken 2003. Select File>>Open and navigate to the file in My Documents. Click okay.
This should force Quicken to convert the file from the 2000 format into the
My friends does not have a burner in his old computer. I took his floppies and burned the data to a cd so he could use that but Quicken did not accept the files. I tried to have him do what Laura suggested but that didn't work either. He managed to get as far as going to My Documents and clicking ok but it just referred him back to My Documents.
He is trying to resign to the fact that he may have to add over 600 items manually - he's not a happy camper. I have done all I know to do for him.
Anyone have any other suggestions? Or maybe could someone give their phone number and tell me the best time to call. I could go over to his house, call you and see if you can troubleshoot this? I live in San Francisco, Ca so I am on PDT (it is now 11:13 AM)
Are these folder or file names? What you need to find is the main quicken file that has a qdf extension. There several other files that go with that main file. These are the ones that you need to copy to the floppy or CD.
It has been a while since I had to think about this, but I think that what you have is a Quicken file contained in multiple backup files created by Quicken in order to span multiple floppy disks (QDATA.QB1 and QDATA.QB2, etc.) that can only be "restored" from their backup media.
If that is the case then I would do another backup but this time do it to the hard drive first. Then burn those files intact to a CD. This will eliminate the spanning of multiple floppies issue.
Just a thought, but can you email yourself the files va. having to burn/restore from a CD and twiddle with the settings? Depends how big the sum of the data files are I suppose.
Thank you all for the advice and tips. I had no idea it would be this complicated. I am not a computer guru to begin with and this project has become too intense for me. I think I will let him enter all his data manually.
Emily - I strongly urge you to relax and re-think the idea of having him RE-ENTER all the data. The options people mentioned here are not too ominous, and in fact, aren't Quicken specific in most (if not all the suggestions), but are rather typical ways to move data from one machine to the other. Why not try to find someone in your area to help you in person if you can't figure it out yourself? Retyping data is NOT what productivity aids like Q and PCs are supposed to make you do!!
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