Nov. 2008 utility upgade for Q 2008 Release 9

What release of Q2009 are you currently running?

If you are trying to update using One Step Update, I don't know what the problem is. If you hadn't said you were already trying to reinstall, I would have suggested reinstalling.

If you are trying to update using manual updates (which you probably should try if One Step Update is failing), then you must update to R7 first, then update to R8, then update to R9.

"JG" wrote in news:R_idncJK6dg4U8bUnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@neonova.net:

My Quicken de Luxe 2008 is R9. I think you may have to do manual updates. Somewhere there ought to be info on how to do that, but I don't have it handy.

I forgot to ask if you are using Vista. If so, make sure you Run As Administrator.

Go to:

Choose your Quicken year.

I would download all the manual update files; but at the least you need R7, R8 and R9.

After uninstalling Q2008 and reinstalling Q2008 from the CD and refusing the offer to update online, exit from Quicken.

Then double-click the R7 patch. When it finishes updating to R7, double-click the R8 patch. When it finishes updating to R8, double-click the R9 patch.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:RMQ6l.504842$yE1.499560@attbi_s21:

FWIW I went from 7 to 9 the other day, but IIRC you need 7 to go to

2. scott s. .

I can't say what the end result of going from 7 to 9 is; but it's clearly not the approach suggested by Intuit.

Generally, patch files to update to newer releases have been cumulative; that is they included the patches from earlier versions. Q2008 R7 is like that, which is why you can go straight from R1 to R7. But the R8 and R9 patches are clearly not cumulative; their size is a fraction that of the R7 patch. And the R9 patch is smaller than the R8 patch, making it unlikely that R9 contains R8.

I don't know how to test that the functionality of R8 is present for the steps you took, but I think it's possible that you don't have that functionality. [R8 supposedly fixed some problem with Quicken credit card setup ... you might not ever even need that particular fix, so never know if it is present.]

One more problem :( Today I ran Q 2008 to print out my 2008 taxes. It's been replaced with 2009. how can I get my 2008 tax plan back? Thanks Jeff

Taxes aren't my specialty, but I think you might do yourself a favor, if you provided more specifics about what you tried (details) and what you got (details).

[One starting point: many Quicken reports/displays default to "current year": make sure that's not part of your problem.]

"John Pollard" wrote in news:3l57l.505905$yE1.362077@attbi_s21:

Well, that's interesting. I was at R7, because I had to move my file between two computers just about the time r8 came out, and I understood that after running r8, a file could no longer be read by r7, so I didn't do the r8 update. After getting my file back to my main computer, I let Q2008 on that computer update, thinking it would go from r7 to r8, but when it finished I found that now it was at r9. Seems to work OK so I guess I will let sleepig dogs lie for now.

scott s. .

I think it's the Q2008 R2 release that makes Q2008 files unreadable by the R1 release.

This sounds like you got your update via Quicken's One Step Update rather than by applying the manual update patch files.

If that's true, I think that Quicken probably knew what to do, and did it correctly behind the scenes.

But I think if you had tried to use the R9 manual patch file to update from R7, it should have failed.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:5Yp7l.451889$TT4.378437@attbi_s22:

Yes

IIRC when this first started, I installed Q08 on the laptop and tried to do a one-step update it failed, and I had to download the r7 patch and applied that which worked (I think that would have been applied to a "virgin" Q08). Since everything was working on r7, and I would have to move my file back to my desktop which was also on r7, I didn't try the r8 patch which I had also downloaded. I didn't let one-step do any program updates on the laptop to ensure I was at r7 until I could do the file transfer. Then when I got the file back into my desktop Q08 with r7 I let one-step do its thing on the desktop which resulted in r9.

scott s. .

Under the heading of Tax then Tax planner 2008 tax form has been replaced with 2009 data. Quicken has 2007 and 2008 tax period to chose from. When looking at the data, it shows Quicken data from 2009 instead of 2008.

I'll let the tax experts answer your question.

But you should understand how confusing your original post was. You said: "Today I ran Q 2008 to print out my 2008 taxes. It's been replaced with

2009."

Thinking that you would be using the Tax Planner to "print out my 2008 taxes" isn't the first thought that comes to a reader's mind.

In the future, I believe you'll likely get more informative responses sooner, it you take a bit more time to more carefully, and specifically, phrase your problem.

Sorry I can't be more help on this one.