Reverse Data Conversion

QIF export and QIF import should do the trick just fine.

MikeB

I'm sorry, I should have been more explicit. What I would like to do is convert a QDATA..QDF file in Quicken 2006 to a QDATA.XXX file for use in Quicken 2000.

Hi, MedRxman.

Mike already gave you the right answer. Maybe you're asking the wrong question. :>(

If you've used Quicken very long, you should know that the *.QDF file is only one of a SET of related files in Quicken. In addition to .QDF, the set also may include .QEL, .QPH, and maybe others, depending on how YOU use Quicken. And the file extensions have changed over the years. In this newsgroup, we usually refer to them all as a "fileset", although Quicken persists in calling the whole set "a file". :>( If you use Quicken to manipulate the files, it will deal with the whole fileset; if you use other Windows tools, be sure to include the whole set. (It's usually easier and safer to use Quicken.)

As you apparently know, Quicken 2006 can easily convert filesets from earlier years to the latest version. But no Quicken version yet has provided a way to convert a later format to an earlier one. (When the programmers wrote the 2000 version, they had no way to know what the file formats would be for each of the several years in the future.) Sometimes, features added in a later version cannot be Imported into an earlier version, even with QIF.

As Mike said, you can Export the entire fileset to a .QIF file, then Import it into the other version. You can do this for some individual parts of the fileset, such as a specific Account or Transaction List within it. In Quicken, click File | Export | QIF File, and explore your options. If you hit a block, you can always click Help; it's pretty good. Just remember that when Quicken says "file", it means the full fileset!

What are you hoping to accomplish, MedRxman? If you explain (a) where you are now and (c) where you want to end up, we probably can help you (b) get from (a) to (c).

RC

Hi mike, I have used Quicken since its DOS days. I am currently using Quicken 2005 Deluxe on a Win98 550 mhz PC. I also have the program installed on a newer(much newer) WinXP Pro 2.4GHZ Laptop PC.

My issue is that the program will on occasion lock up and I must do a total shut of the WIN 98 PC. This lockup occurs when running many reports. It is most likely a WIN 98 resource problem and I was going to revert to Quicken

To avoid all the excess workarounds I will now do my work on the Win XP Pro machine and copy the data files to the Win 98 PC.

I guess it's time to consider a new XP machine for the desktop also.

Thanks for the reply.