Migration Assistant and Quicken database?

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Roland Torres wrote:
>>
>> What??? It's a file. Copy it.
>
> How? I've tried copying it with the Finder, I've tried using cp,  
> and I've tried tar, and Quicken rejects the copies, "This is not a  
> valid Quicken database." I don't know what's so special about the  
> original DB file, but I was told a few years ago that they use  
> 'physical block access' or somesuch, which would render a data copy  
> of it useless. Granted, he's using an older version (Q2004 on  
> 10.3.9, I think).
>
> Roland

I recently upgraded to Quicken 2007 and it had different instructions  
for databases coming from different versions of the software. I  
didn't thoroughly read the instructions for older versions because it  
didn't apply. I simply opened a copy of the database, and Quicken  
2007 updated it. For older versions, you may have to launch the older  
version and export each account as QIF and then import that into a  
new Quicken file. It just may not be able to support the database  
file you're handing off to it. Or it may be corrupt in the view of  
the new version but not the old. So I'd also have the old version  
reindex the file before either attempting to migrate the database, or  
export its contents as QIF.


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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