Migration Assistant and Quicken database?

[Roland Torres]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:50 AM, János wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Roland Torres wrote:
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>> My friend has an old 'iLamp' Mac and wants to upgrade to a new  
>> iMac. He is worried about how to transfer his stuff off the old  
>> and onto the new, and I told him that OS X has a 'Migration  
>> Assistant' application that can do that. However, he has a Quicken  
>> database on the old Mac. Does anyone know if Migration Assistant  
>> will 'copy' (rebuild? recreate?) it correctly? From what I  
>> understand, Quicken DBs are somehow tied to physical blocks on the  
>> disk.  Intuit doesn't seem to offer a tool to do the job, as far  
>> as I can tell.
>>
>
> Roland,
>
> You might have a corrupted file system either on the iLamp or on  
> the new machine, so run disk first aid first.
>
> I copied my Quicken database with no problem from an SE/30 to my  
> iBook a few years ago over a 10BaseT connection.

Thanks János, Scott, Chad, Terry and everyone for all the  
suggestions. Perhaps there is indeed some file corruption or  
something squirrelly going on, because I sure couldn't make a copy of  
the DB file that Quicken would load. I will try again, first doing an  
fsck and Disk Warrior. Once I get this issued squared away  
(understandably, he doesn't want to redo his Quicken setup from  
scratch), then he'll likely go ahead with a new machine.

One assumption, though, is that copying the Quicken DB file from a G4  
machine to a Core 2 Duo will not introduce architecture/endian  
problems on the new machine? Otherwise, being able to make a copy of  
the DB file is a moot point.

Roland