Restoring from backup on a new laptop - no historical prices for securities - Premier 2007

lawson2343

Hello,

I have Quicken 2007 Premier. The current laptop is dying, so I've installed 2007 Premier (I have the original CD) on a new laptop. I did a restore from backup (Premier 2007 doesn't have .qdf-backup files - it just saves them as .qdf, but it has a backup directory).

Everything looks good at first. My accounts, securities, etc are all there on the new laptop.

Problem:

But when I open any security in any account, I see a $0 market value. When I check each security, there is no historical price. It looks like it has all the transactions for each security.

I know that I have price history from as far back as 2002 and maybe earlier on many of my stocks/funds on the old laptop from which I did the backup. And my understanding is that historical prices are in the QDF file.

I have never used the online feature of Premier 2007 for stock/fund prices.

Ticker:

I have not put a Ticker Symbol in many of the securities. So as a test I put Ticker into a number of securities on the old laptop, did a backup and did a restore on the new laptop from that file. No change! No historical prices.

I would hate like heck to have to go in and manually enter history prices, as like I've said, I've got many securities and many are 30+ years old.

I've been all over the internet reading issues like this and trying solutions to no avail. I tried an export of a security and only selected the Security Lists feature. But when I bring that QIF file from the old to new laptop and try to Import - Quicken tells me QIF Import is not available for bank, 401K, brokerage accounts, etc.

So how can I get my historical prices since they were manually entered versus downloaded via internet?

Is there any fear that stocks or funds I've sold would no longer have the shares sold and at what purchase/sale price?

And I swear that when I restored on my old laptop (old laptop actually was restored from another computer long ago - so this makes the 3rd install) I did not have this price problem?

When I installed this latest copy of Premier 2007 did I not answer an install wizard question properly? I've thought about uninstalling and redoing it.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Tim

NotACPA

I'm amazed that you were able to successfully install a Q product that's so old. The Intuit servers to validate such an install were taken offline years ago.

Likewise, your product is so far out of date that you shouldn't be able to download ANYTHING! Not transactions, not program updates, not quotes.

But the question remains, how did you move your data from old PC to new? Because you might have missed a piece, or 2, of data.