security prices

I upgraded from 2006 deluxe to 2007 deluxe. My 9 years of securities price hitories didn't convert. In other words I have no securities history at all. I know I can download historical prices but I really need the price history iI have saved for the past nine years. Has anyone had this problem and if so how did you reslove it? Thanks, Tony

"Tony" wrote

If you lost or destroyed your price history file and you have no backups, you're out of luck.

Price history doesn't "convert"; since about Q2001 it lives in its own Quicken file and its format has not changed from version to version. If that file was not available when you converted your Q2006 data, you would be without prices.

Look in the folder where your Q2007 file is located, and look in the folder Q06Files. See if you have a file with a "qph" extension there. If so, rename the qph file in the Q2007 folder, then copy the qph file from the Q06Files folder to the Q2007 folder. Start Quicken and see if your old prices are there.

If there is no qph file in Q06Files, or if it does not recover your prices, you can start searching elsewhere for qph files ... try copying them into your Q2007 data folder, newest ones first.

[Quicken makes automatic backups every 7 days or so in a folder named BACKUP in the folder where the data file open at the time is located; that's one possible source of older price history files. There may be one or more Q2006 qph files in that folder you could use.]

Hi John, thanks for the quick re[ly. I do have multiple backups of the

2006 files. This was a clean install of 2007 on a new pc. I took the files ending in qdf, qdp ,idx ,npc, qel from 2006 and copied them into the new 2007 folder. Quicken then converted them to 2007. Thats when I saw I lost all my prices.

I tried your suggestion and all it did was to ignore my 2006 qph file and it created a new one eve after renaming the old 2007 qph file

I could do the whole thing over if need, step by step. What do you suggest? I'll try anything as I really need my price history.

Thanks for you help, Quicken support couldn't help me.

"Tony" wrote

Possibly I did not make it clear.

The idea is to replace the Q2007.qph file with the Q2006.qph file (or any qph file with the right prices) ... while not deleting either existing file. When you finish, the copy of the old price history file (with the correct prices) must have the exact same name as your current Q2007 price history file (the one you rename as the first step). Then Quicken will not - can not - create a "new" Q2007 price history file.

If you start with something like the followiing (there may be more files in your filesets, they're not material, I'm just trying to keep it short) - where your Q2007 data is in the folder C:\Quicken:

C:\Quicken\qdata.qdf C:\Quicken\qdata.qph C:\Quicken\qdata.qel C:\Quicken\Q06Files\qdata.qdf C:\Quicken\Q06Files\qdata.qph C:\Quicken\Q06Files\qdata.qel

You would:

rename C:\Quicken\qdata.qph C:\Quicken\qdata.qph.bak copy C:\Quicken\Q06Files.qph C:\Quicken\qdata.qph

Then start Quicken and open C:\Quicken\qdata.qdf

If you do that, Quicken will not create another qph file for your Q2007 data ... it can't be done because you can't have two files with the same name.

Thanks for your help, I finally got it to work. I reinstalled 07 using the pertanent data files from 06. The first time I somehow left out the qph file. After reading your advice I figured it out.

Thanks again.

T>"Tony" wrote