Home Inventory & Emergency Records Organizer [edited]

KJS

Please bring back Quicken Home Inventory. It was a very powerful feature that I used regularly, and I miss it very much.

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jl747

Are you talking about the stand alone version? (I think the stand alone version was and still is owned by Intuit)

There is one that is included in Quicken. Albeit a slim down version.
See this Article to install it if you didn't already.

https://www.quicken.com/support/installing-quicken-home-inventory-and-emergency-records-organizer

It has not been update in years.

If you do a search there are a number of discussions like the following.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7867121/home-inventory

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7882511/quicken-home-inventory

I also use third party Inventory software called Attic Manager. It is able to import Quickens inventory data file.
https://www.guacosoft.com/attic/

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TempCommUser

I have reinstalled Home Inventory and Emergency Records 3 or 4 times now. When I go to Property & Debt and click on Emergency Records, a page opens to enter records. When I click on Home Inventory, the page opens, and then freezes my computer. I have to use CTRL+ALT+DELETE and use Task Manager to end Quicken Home Inventory.

I would be happy if I could just open my inventory file and convert it to Excel. But as of now, my inventory history of the last 15 or so years, is pretty much gone.

Any other ideas?

jl747

@TempCommUser

Which Windows OS are you using?
What version of Quicken are you using? (Help-About)
Have you read any of the above links to solve your problem?

You can look for the QHI.exe and open as Administrator or Make Compatible with Windows 8.

Look for QHI.IDB and double click it.

If all else fails there is software that can read the QHI data file it's called Attic Manager.

https://www.guacosoft.com/attic/

I use it as a backup.

TempCommUser

Hi,

Thank you for responding. I am using Quicken R59.18. My Windows OS is 10 Pro, version 22H2.

I right-clicked on QHI.exe and ran as administrator, and the Home Inventory window opens, but freezes; I cannot click on File or any other headers at the top. I found the QHI.idb file, dated 10/22/2024. I double-clicked on it and a message pops up asking if I want to close the current file (my Quicken file). I clicked yes and it closed my Quicken down. I clicked no and nothing happened; it took me back to my Quicken file.

I will try that Attic Manager and see how that works. Thank you for the suggestion.

jl747

@TempCommUser

You might want to temporarily turn off your antivirus and try again.

If it works with it off then you will have to White List or train your antivirus that it is good program.

skeleton567

My caution regarding this is to not depend too much on a single piece of software, and even a single computer system. First, more data, especially textual data stored in the Quicken file will inevitably mean larger files, slower performance, and more storage space consumed by many more copies of data which changes infrequently. I don't need to back up copies of our wills, real estate, insurance documents as often as I need to back up my financials.

We do have a certain location for storing this relatively static data and all of our four children have been told about this. In some situations it may make more sense to actually have multiple identical physical originals distributed to and stored by interested parties. I also maintain a data storage application in which I keep current information on all financial and legal aspects including login names and passwords which will aid in handling legal and financial affairs when needed. The heirs are all informed of this also.

At this point I don't believe physical copies of such things as insurance plans and even real estate documents are probably required, but I'm not sure about wills and that type. WE probably should have identical copies of wills in multiple locations in the even of destruction of our local copies.

Another caution for you to consider would be to have a separate OFFLINE system for storing your private data to isolate it from the outside world and be more immune to hacking. Things like NAS devices and even USB drives make excellent solutions for storing data and can be totally powered down for additional isolation.

Johnwaz84

Again Quicken is reducing functionality of their product and continue to increase the cost of ownership. An equity company owns quicken now. Their only concern is shaking your pockets.