Quicken 2000 and Vista

I installed my old Quicken 2000 on my new Vista Home Premium machine. It can't read my files. Must I buy Q 2007? Will it be able to read or convert my old files?

Thanks

Drew

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Drew
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Hi, Drew.

Vista should be able to run Quicken 2000 and access your Quicken 2000 data files. HOW are you trying to access the files?

Vista does have some new security features that irritate some users until they get familiar with Vista. If you tell us, step by step, how you installed Quicken 2000 and then how you tried to access the files, we should be able to help you get them working. As a first guess, what happens if you use Windows Explorer to browse to your *.qdf file and click on it?

You should not have to buy Quicken 2007. But if you do buy it (or Q2008, which should be out within a month or two, if Intuit follows their usual schedule), it should also have no problems with Vista. It will find your Quicken 2000 data files and convert them to the Quicken 2007 format, after first saving copies of them in a new folder it will create, probably named Q00Files.

RC

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R. C. White

I don't know anything about Q2000's compatibility with Vista, but where are your Quicken data files located? If they're someplace that Vista has protected, there might be ownership problems. Try copying all those files into a directory under Documents and see if you can read them (assuming they're just copies of the regular files) or Restore them (if they're Backups).

Dave

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David A. Lessnau

Make sure that the A attribute is set on all of the files. Quicken of that era couldn't find it's files if the A attribute was cleared. That was usually done by a backup program.

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John

Hi R C

I installed Quicken with the original disk without incident. I moved my files into a data file under "Documents" on the new computer. I was unable to open them. I got an error message which said "Data losses were found in your file".

I have a home network and tried to open the files on the Vista computer from my XP machine with my copy of Q2000 Basic, it could not do it. I know that this is not a network problem since I can open "Word" and "Excel files" on the Vista computer from my computer.

Any help would be appreciated. We only use Quicken for bookkeeping, but it can get pretty complex at times. We certainly don't need more than Q2000 Basic. I don't want to buy Q2007 if Q2000 is not the problem.

Thanks

Drew Dripping Springs

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Drew

Thanks for the reply -

Dumb question - what is the "A" attribute and how do I set it?

Wes

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Drew

The 'A' attribute is the Archive attribute. Whenever a file is changed, Windows sets this. Many backup programs will clear it after backing up the file.

Quicken had a long-running quirk where it had problems accessing it's files on NTFS partitions. Sometimes, forcing the archive attribute on would fix it.

To fix it, go to the directory that has your data files. Select all of them. Right-click and choose Properties. If you don't see 'archiving' on the box, see if there is an 'advanced...' button. If so, click that, then SET the checkbox for 'File is ready for archiving'. (I have Win2K, so I don't know how the dialogs have changed with XP and Vista.) You may also need to CLEAR any read-only setting, which can happen if you copied the data from a CD.

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Andrew Rossmann

Hi, Drew.

You live in Drippin'? Howdy, Neighbor! ; this is not a network problem since I can open "Word" and "Excel files" on

I'll let others discuss this aspect of the problem. But Word and Excel may be more network-aware than Quicken.

Quicken 2000 is about as old as Windows 2000, which introduced new security measures. Many users here reported problems with getting Quicken installed and running in Win2K because it may have been installed by one user and unusable by another user. My single-user focus kept me from having to deal with these problems. But Vista's souped-up version of these restrictions may be causing Quicken to have trouble accessing all the files in the Quicken fileset. A more detailed description of exactly how you moved your data files, and the folder where you moved them, might help others spot the fly in this ointment. Simply saying, "I moved my files..." doesn't give us the details that we need to follow exactly what you did.

When you have all your Quicken 2000 data fileset in a single folder on the Quicken computer, and you have access and can navigate to that folder with Windows Explorer, then you should be able to start Quicken with your file loaded by simply clicking on the *.qdf file. Have you tried this?

RC

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R. C. White

"Drew" wrote in news:469cf480$0$4662$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com:

In addition to te other comments if you installed Q2000 off of a CD, it is possible you will need to do a one-step update or something else (since Q2000 is not supported by Intuit anymore, I think) to get the program updated to whatever revision it was used last at (R number on help, about on your old machine).

But in any case, if you have file permissions set up correctly, you should be able to launch your old Q2000 on the XP machine by double-clicking on the qdf file located on the Vista machine, as mentioned.

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Han

R C

Thanks for the iterest! I put "Dripping Springs" to let you know I was just down the road from you.

All the the files I ever had are all there (3 of them with special extensions). Incidently, I cannot even open the moved files on the Vista machine from my XP machine on the network. I can open the identical ones I left on my XP machine.

Do you have any idea if Q2007 will work with Vista? I looked at a box yesterday and it did not include Vista in the Windows versions it works in (only Win98, ME and XP).

Drew

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Drew

Hi, Drew.

I use Quicken 2007 Basic on Vista Ultimate x64 every day. When the Quicken

2007 boxes were printed, Vista was still in beta and about 6 months from release to the general market. I used Q05, 06 and 07 all through the Vista beta, re-installing them so many times I lost count. ;^}

That PROBABLY should be all of them, but I always feel more confident if I let Quicken do the File | Copy to the new location. What extensions are in your Quicken 2000's BACKUP folder, the one created automatically by Quicken and used to store the weekly automatic backups? Unless you changed the defaults, you should find five complete sets of your data files, dated a week apart, in that subfolder in the folder where Q2000 always kept your working copy of your data fileset.

As I said, I know nothing of networks, but I've heard that Quicken has problems working with one.

RC

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R. C. White

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