Quicken 2007/Mac/Lion - Mountain Lion - Data Corrupted, Price History vanished
Wed night I downloaded Mountain Lion (upgrade from Snow Leopard). Thurs a.m. I downloaded Quicken Mac/2007, Lion to my desktop iMac. When I tried to open my files I got a "Data Corrupted" message and a choice to Resolve or proceed. I hit Resolve. The solution involved dragging the Data file for Securities Prices into Trash and waiting for it to rebuild.
I trashed it, and it didn't rebuild. I lost price histories that I had hand-entered since 1993.
I called Quicken Help and they told me the same thing: Ditch the data file. So I ditched it again--still no price histories. They said "Sorry, we can't help."
Fortunately I'd backed up my files and I didn't install Mt. Lion on my laptop. The Quicken on the laptop (2007 older version) works fine.
Does anyone have any ideas? Will Intuit be coming up with a fix?
I trashed it, and it didn't rebuild. I lost price histories that I had hand-entered since 1993.
I called Quicken Help and they told me the same thing: Ditch the data file. So I ditched it again--still no price histories. They said "Sorry, we can't help."
Fortunately I'd backed up my files and I didn't install Mt. Lion on my laptop. The Quicken on the laptop (2007 older version) works fine.
Does anyone have any ideas? Will Intuit be coming up with a fix?
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This morning, for kicks, I tried again on my iMac (Mountain Lion/Quicken 2007 Lion) to open my data files and restore Price History. I discovered I'd been making a fundamental mistake. Instead of trashing the QUOTES file, I'd been trashing the DATA file. When I ditched the Quotes file and kept Data, I was able to restore prices using Cmd-Opt-U. I did it on several files, including an older one without the .QDFM extension.
After I ditched the Quotes file and restored as much price history as I could, I compared the prices between my desktop (where I'd restored them) and the old Quicken non-Mt. Lion files on my laptop. There were significant differences. I ended up having to hand-enter all the important amounts in the Mt. Lion Quicken files. It took a LONG time! Much of the problem was because Quicken insists on ticker symbols. Many of my investments don't have ticker symbols, like mutual funds. I made some up, but they varied from year to year on the same investment. Also, over time, the name of the investment might have changed.
Altogether, it was a big mess, and I hope I never have to go through THAT again!
http://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/how-do-i-get-price-quotes-to-import-in-q2007-for-lion-from-valid-original-file...
I then tried to manually export and re-import the data in QIF format but to no avail. Now I await a reply to that problem.
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