Any Quikbooks/Quicken experts?

[Boomyal]

I have a bit of a dilema. I think I deleted my Quickbooks/Quicken program with the pupose in mind to reinstall it to another drive to free up space on my C: drive. I say I think I did because I do not remember for sure but I did delete other programs for the same purpose.

I probably assumed that I that I would reload, using the CD. Today I went scrounging for the CD and much to my chagrin I cannot find it. I do have the data file as I always backed it up onto another physical drive for safety.

I actually do not remember the version that I had. I thing that I had upgraded from QBPro ('99) to a 2000 something version of Quicken, but I am not even sure of that. I still had the Icon on my quick start bar, and I have a QBOOKSW directory on my C: drive but no EXE. file.

Here is my question. Are QB data files universally operable between all years of QB and Quicken? It seems that someone once indicated that once version gets so old, newer versions cannot read the data file/backup. (incidently, my back-ups were copied and pasted, not created with the QB back up function.)

I don't want to go out a buy a newer version if it can't read my copied and pasted data file.

[colour=red]EDIT[/colour]: I just put my cursor on the inactive QB icon in my quick start tray and it says QUICKBOOKS BASIC.(it appears that this is not a current offering by Intuit) That kind of eliminates the possibility that I had any version of Quicken.

If I purposely uninstalled Quicken, using 'add remove software', I really don't understand why I still have a QBOOKSW directory with a lot of subdirectories still in it plus I still have the quickstart tray Icon???

[colour=red]EDIT II[/colour] I just solved my dilema. Looking thru some of the subdirectories that were left behind I was able to determine that I had QUICKBOOKS BASIC 2002. (2005 was the last year they offered BASIC)

I just found a copy of it on Amazon.com for $50. I guess that is not too bad a price to pay for sloppy program archiving. I'm usually more efficient that that but my original may have gotten lost in a bidna (eubonics for Business) move.

 

[i386]

Re: Any Quikbooks/Quicken experts?

I am not an expert on using the software, but I have quite a few customers that run it so I have installed/upgrated/migrated it many times...

If you purchase the current version of Quickbooks it should "upgrade" your data file to that version when you go File->Open Company.

DISCLAIMER: If it's really old it may not. Call Intuit and ask first. It may sound counter intuitive, but talk to a sales person instead of asking for tech support. The sales person should take the burdon of getting the question answered so you'll buy the product. Software support will do everything possible to make you pay to get the question answered.

The uninstaller should leave any data files and backup files (.qbw and .qbb respectively) in your QBOOKSW folder. It may also leave a few others files that deal with customizations you may have done. Once you put the .qbb and .qbw files in a safe place, it's safe to delete that folder.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Any Quikbooks/Quicken experts?

Well, for now I will be off and running as soon as the Amazon package gets here. Then there will be no guesswork.

It seems a few years back I was using QBPRO '99. I think my accountant was having trouble reading the accountant copies with their then current QB version. That's when I went out and got the 2002 version. I can always pick up a latter version later on if I need to keep advancing in version date. I don't use the payroll part so I won't have to worry about paying annual subscription rates. They sure have you all locked in.

This all, of course, had to happen right when I was feeling the crunch to get my last 3 corporate years of filings brought up to date. Thank goodness I don't owe any money, both Federal and State.