Q07 on two systems?

I am currently running Q07 on my home system and would also like to run it on a second system at work, using one set of data that I would transfer using a CD backup disc. Is this possible with out buying a second Q07????

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Dick
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Dick:

The license agreement for Q2007 H&B allows installation on "up to three" computers in the same household.

Since it sounds like you'll be using the same data at work, I suspect that the work computer would fall under the spirit of "same household," even if it does not fulfill the exact wording.

Bob

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Bob Wang

Thank you for your response.

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Dick

Are there any features in Q that would help in using it across 2 different PCs (eg: data sync)?

My wife and I would like to split up the work of keeping our accounts up-to-date, and it would help if we could both have Q on our PCs and somehow sync the data that we both update.

I'm guessing not, but just wanted to check since the license agreement must allow for 3 machines for some reason..

Thanks..

Jim

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Jim S

Why do so many of you complicate things? The solution is oh, so simple. Simply take turns sitting down at YOUR computer. Once one person feels that they have done enough updating, the OTHER person can input for a while. Or alternate days...or weeks doing that chore. Whatever.

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sharx35

Jim:

Good point about the 3 machines language.

*MAYBE* Intuit is preparing to tout networking capability in a future release of Quicken.

I'm just wary of off-label use of software applications that don't specifically support access over networks.

Bob

My wife and I would like to split up the work of keeping our accounts up-to-date, and it would help if we could both have Q on our PCs and somehow sync the data that we both update.

I'm guessing not, but just wanted to check since the license agreement must allow for 3 machines for some reason..

Thanks..

Jim

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Bob Wang

Q (at least the Basic/Deluxe versions) is not network aware. This becomes important if two users try to access/change data at the same time. Network aware applications use "record locking" to prevent an open record from being changed by another user. Q has *NO* such ability....

What you *can* do is put the database files somewhere accessible by both users. Be aware, though, that if both are accessing the data (and you won't know it) at the same time you will have *big* problems... Make sure you have frequent backups......

Regards, Hank Arnold

Jim S wrote:

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Hank Arnold

Additional hidden benefit of more than one person doing updates is that both will be up-to-date on family finances.

So many financial planners face tremendous problems trying to first determine financial facts from widows, widowers and other life partners suddenly left single. Read an article years back of one such planner who was losing money on the pre-planning detective work, so he set up a company staffed with the investigators he had and sent the clients to that company to dig out details before taking on the financial analysis and advice part.

Jay .

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Jay M Apple

Excellent point.

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sharx35

I don't like to share my computer with the hubby. He uses different text size etc. times aren't convenient for separate use of same computer - all kinds of things. we solved our sharing of Quicken duties by doing backup on a thumb drive which we take to our own machine when we want to enter data.

Cheers, Pam

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SpringPam

Thumb drives are great. Say good bye to floppies and CDs for most back ups.

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sharx35

When I have Quicken open on one machine, the other is not able to open the data file. It gets an error at Quicken startup. This is with Q2006, and Windows XP.

Regards, Jim Henry

Hank Arnold wrote:

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Jim Henry

"sharx35" wrote in news:9SFlh.110149$hn.64699@edtnps82:

Backups are your friends. I do daily to a separate drive, to a directory that automatically changes with the date embedded. Karen's Replicator (freeware) does this automagically for me. See:

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Han

Agreed.... I also use Karen's program. Love it.....

Regards, Hank Arnold

Han wrote:

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Hank Arnold

So that means the only up-to-date data file is on the thumb drive, right? The data files on the two computers are essentially out of date virtually all of the time, as I see it.

Let me see if I can walk through this. There's computer A and computer B.

User A updates the data in Quicken and stores it on the thumb drive. UNLESS User A takes the added step of backing up the thumbdrive data to the Computer A hard drive, then the only up-to-date Quicken file is the one on the thumb. User B takes the thumbdrive to her computer and opens the file from the thumbdrive. That means whatever datafile is on Computer B is ignored because as far as Quicken and computer B are concerned, the only live file is the one on the thumbdrive. And as soon as User B adds a new transaction to the thumbdrive file, the data on computer A is out of date (or out of synch, if you prefer). Again, unless User B takes the added step of backing up the thumbdrive data to her computer hard drive, then the only up-to-date file of Quicken transactions is the one on the thumbdrive. We know that the file on Computer A is out of synch because it doesn't include the transactions that User B just added.

I'm not trying to be especially complicated here. Just wanted to make sure you understood what's going on. I know because a couple of years ago I tried to work Quicken on two computers by myself. Reason: The computer I used most didn't have internet access. So while I did all of my check-printing etc from that computer, I had to go use a computer in another room to download new transactions, which I then brought to the other computer using a Zip disk. But I quickly became confused in the process.

As I see it, with two users, you each would have to make sure that you used the thumb drive EVERY time you used Quicken. This may require a little bit more explanation, but I don't want to bore people trying to do so. I think the last time I tried to make this point in the ng, somebody said (incorrectly, in my opinion) that I was needlessly complicating things.

But do the rest of you see this the same way, or am I forgetting about something?

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DP

"DP" wrote in news:qe7mh.15760$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

I use a program called SyncbackSE to synchronize my quicken data files between my main PC and my laptop across my wireless LAN.

Works fine for me.

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speedlever

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