I just upgraded to Windows Vista Home Premium. I already had Quicken 2007 (R4), and when I opened it for the first time in Vista, all my historical stock prices were GONE. I have tried to re-download the last couple years but no luck yet.
My investment performance reports are pretty meaningless without historical data, plus I have a non-publicly quoted fund in my 401k for which the data is now lost.
Anyone out there who upgraded to Vista successfully?
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My QDATA file is about 15 MB. When I tried to >> (snip)
It's too late for you, but people who aren't in IT should stay the hell away from Vista for now. I ordered our yearly allocation of PCs this year with XP, Vista just isn't ready quite yet.
This is nothing like Windows XP, which was shockingly robust with v1.0. Give Vista 6 more months. By the time Quicken '08 is out, you should be good to go. :)
Hi, Gary.
Sure. Most of us, I suspect.
Oh. You said "upgraded". I was never able to "upgrade". All through the beta testing (over a dozen install-Vista-beta, install-Quicken) cycles over a year-and-a-half, I always did a clean install of Vista, and then a fresh install of Quicken (and other applications). And I've installed the final ("gold", RTM) version of Vista Ultimate x64 (and x86) a couple of times, followed by installation of Quicken each time. Each time I've tried to "upgrade" to Vista, Setup told me that Upgrade had been disabled, so I did the clean install, usually reformatting the target volume.
It seems strange that the rest of Quicken would upgrade for you, but not the
*.qph file, which stores the historical prices. I thought that an upgrade of Vista would migrate my Registry settings for Quicken, but would not change the contents or location of the \QuickenW folder, including (by default) all the QDATA.* files.HOW did you upgrade to Vista? HOW did you open your Quicken data file for the first time after the upgrade?
The best way that I've found to open my data file after the install-Vista/install-Quicken operation is to use Windows Explorer to navigate to \QuickenW and click on the QDATA.qdf file. This starts Quicken with that file loaded, including all the related files in the QDATA.* fileset.
Since the retail versions of Vista arrived just last week, you are in the first wave of upgraders. I hope your experience will help others to avoid problems of transitioning to Quicken in Vista. It might help if you tell us more details about your system, such as, what was your previous OS (Win9x? WinXP Home? WinXP Pro?); how many HDs and how are they partitioned; did you upgrade over that OS in the same volume (C:?), or install Vista into a different volume (D:? E:? X:?); what kind of computer and operating system (32-bit or 64-bit?; brand-name or homebuilt?); and other information that might be important to another upgrader.
RC
I'm happy to report that this was fairly easy to solve on my own.
For some reason, there was a zero-byte file in my Quicken data folder called ".QPH" (no filename, just the extension) in addition to the usual "QDATA.QPH" file.
I deleted ".QPH" and overwrote all my other Quicken data files with my last good backup, then opened Quicken 2007 by double-clicking on "QDATA.QDF" from within Windows Explorer, per RC's suggestion.
Happily, everything worked and I'm back in business.
Hi, Gary.
Thanks for the report back. I'm glad you got it working. ; I'm happy to report that this was fairly easy to solve on my own.
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