Has anyone in the group had a bad experience upgrading to Quicken2006 from Q2004? I'm looking for any got-cha's??
I'm hours away from upgrading from Quicken2004 to Quicken2006. I've been a quicken user since early 90's so I've learned the hard way that these upgrades are painful on multiple dimensions! I want to know what I'm getting myself into.
Thanks in advance.
--Rajeev
I recently made the same move - H&B version Absolutely no problems on Window XP Things I did before the upgrade: Make a back up of Quicken data files using Quickens back up (didn't need 'em) Reboot to make sure you are starting clean Close all applications in the systems tray like virus protection. Followed the directions during set up including registering. Don't think you are smarter than Quicken!
I have 3 file sets and all went smoothly with each I did not find any got-cha's except it got better! Jim M.
No problems with the software itself, just the Intuit customer service when it comes to ordering anything and getting it straight in a timely manner. Either buy it at a store, or download it. Ordering from Intuit directly to get the rebate up front was an absurdly bad decision on my part due to their sub pony express delivery times. That part, I will never ever do again !!!
I would add three more steps, good for any upgrade.
Make a Quicken "Copy" of your data fileset. Validate the "Copy". Super Validate the "Copy".
Do your conversion on the resulting fileset.
I've read the same help statement. I wouldn't consider converting from one version to another a "regular practice". I have done many Validates and super-Validates with no problem.
I certainly did not mean to imply that every person or every conversion would benefit; but once you have converted and spent some months entering/downloading data in the new version, if you experience a problem caused by the conversion of corrupted data, you may find it very difficult to correct it. My belief is that it is better to do whatever you can to insure the file being converted is clean; many users do not realize when they have corruption and if they wait until they figure it out, or someone else suggests it to them, it may be too late.
The bottom line: I believe users are much more likely to have data corruption that is corrected by (or made no worse by) Validate/Super-validate than they are to have problems caused by Validate/Super-validate.
At the least, you can do the Copy/Validate/Super-validate in the old version before you uninstall it. That way you can have an unvalidated and a validated old version file on your hard drive. If you convert the unvalidated file, then decide you wished you'd converted the validated one, you won't have to reinstall the older version to create it. Hopefully, you won't ever have any problems that call for a reconversion.
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