Quicken 99 to Quicken 7

I'm a UK user and don't remember V7 being a UK version. IIRC it went Q5, Q98, Q99, Q2000, Q2002, QXG.

There are a couple of things to watch.

Quicken will not like two versions being installed at the same time. Some versions even go as far as automatically uninstalling earlier versions for you. I'm not saying it can't be done though.

Quicken will quite happily 'upgrade' your data file through many versions with no problems, but this is a one-way street! A backup is made - make sure you know where so you don't overwrite it by mistake. Even better make your own backup and physically remove it.

Quicken versions will not 'downgrade' your data to an earlier version. How can it - the data format didn't exist when the earlier version was written so it doesn't know how to deal with it?

Upgrading between different country versions of Quicken just doesn't work. Earlier US versions prior to V7 I think (please confirm or refute this US users) cannot handle multiple currencies, while the UK versions have always been able to and I believe the Canadian versions can handle US as well as Canadian $.

Hope this helps, but whatever you do keep a backup of your registration details, (Quicken is not supported in the UK any more so if you reinstall, it's unlikely to be able to reregister itself) and keep a known good backup of all your data files. Allowing Quicken to do this is perhaps best as you won't miss any then.

Thanks for your response. You are correct of course with respect to ver 7 not being a UK Version but neither is the Version 99 that I used while resident in Canada but it works OK in the UK, that is will operate both in GBP (£) as well as dollars ($C).

I assume the US version 7 will allow multiple currencies to be used, it would be very odd otherwise. What I am really looking for is some guidance whether Version 7 is a 'must have' when compared to Version

99 that I presently use. I take your point about the likelihood that version 7 and version 99 may not be able to co-exist and to safeguard data; I have all data triple backed up on DVD and external HDD (what me paranoid!)

I still don't know what version of Quicken you are talking about, but if you mean Quicken 2007 US, it won't support multi-currencies like the Canadian version does. The US version is significantly less robust than the Canadian in this regard. Basically the US version works like the old Canadian version did (before they added multi-currency): it converts from foreign currency to dollars at the time of the transaction, but that's it. No accounts in different currencies, no currency history, no choice of home currency, etc.

"Fred Smith" wrote

Quicken US now does offer choice of home currency, and accounts in different currency. But no currency history. I can't speak for all versions, but Q2005 and Q2006 offer these options; my guess is that Q2007 does not offer less.

Thanks, John. It's good to know they've enhance it somewhat.

I have loaded Version 7 onto a 'clean' machine, that is a machine that has not had a previous version of Qui cken installed. The '99' data converted after a bit of a struggle; it kept hanging during conversion but when I tried it in WINXP safe mode it converted OK.

Goodness what a clutter, bells and whistles and then some, when compared to Quicken 99. I'm sure many find al the extra 'stuff' useful but my first impressions are that they have turned a very simple but functional program into quite a daunting mess. I suppose if I had upgraded each year I would have eased into the new features, as it is I find it all somewhat overwhelming.

Perhaps if I work at it I may find some redeeming features but I suspect I will likely stick with the old version, after all it does what I want and at present I don't see anything in Version 7 that is a 'must have', at least for me.

With respect to currencies other than dollars, my GBP (£) accounts converted without problems. I haven't investigated if I can convert between Canadian $ and GBP £ yet but that's not a big deal, a calculator with the exchange rate works too!