quicken data file will not open but was created in quicken 2007 for mac
Had a iMac running Mac os10.11 running quicken 2007. Logic board crashed and I hav eplacd it iwh a nwMac running Mac OS 11.13. I have a time machine backup for everything up to the night it crashed. After purchasing quicken fo mac2018 I tried to open several of the time machine backups as well as the backups from quicken itself. none of the date files will open. I get error about older files not being supported. but they where cr on quicken for mac2007. Help I need one of the accounts for a trust, any ideas please!
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Once you have located, launch QM2019. You should see the screen below. (If you don't, click menu File > New...) Choose "Start from a Quicken for Mac 2007 file", click Next and point the file browser at you restored QM2007 data file.
That’s one avenue to pursue. A completely separate path to pursue is moving to Quicken 2019, since you said you purchased it. Quicken 2019 will import any Quicken 2007 data file, and it’s not clear from what you posted exactly what happened when you launched Quicken 2019, told it you wanted to start from a Quicken 2007 data file, and pointed it to your data file. There should be no compatibility issues with that, unless what you restored from your Time Machine backup is actually not your Quicken 2007 data file.
From your original post, I think you should be able to get up and running one or both of these ways, and we can help you with it. Take a step back from what you’ve previously concluded, and help us help you work through it step by step. Start with the question above about the version of your Quicken 2007 application, and a description (screen shots are even more helpful) of what happens when you try to start Quicken 2019.
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In the Finder, open a new Search window by selecting File > Find (or pressing Command-F).
- Click on Search This Mac
- Select search by "Kind is Other", then type "Quicken Data File".
That should find the file regardless of file extension, as one is not mandatory with QM2007 and what it might be can vary depending on which version of QMac originally created the file (though if it has one it is likely .qdfm). So the above will bypass that issue.BTW, if your backup was complete including applications, you should be able to find a copy of your QM2007 also.
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(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
In terms of your hard drive, yes, you should be able to boot from it if you put the drive in and enclosure. But if you can find what you need on your Time Machine backups, this might not be necessary. Can you find the Quicken 2007 application in the Applications folder?
In terms of moving to Quicken 2019, you should not need to backup or export your 2007 data file; Quicken 2019 should read it.
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(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
But if you really want to be able to access it you will need a copy of QM2007 PPC version (v16.0.x) but this version will only run on Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or older (as far back as Tiger OS X 10.4.6).
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(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
Something in what you’ve described still doesn’t add up to me, so can we try to re-trace some steps...
Can you go back to your Time Machine from shortly before your old Mac died and find your data file again. If you do a File > Get Info on it, what is the Modification Date and Last Opened date on this file? If the date is shortly before your Mac died, then it can’t be from an older version of Quicken; restore a fresh copy of this backup to your desktop.
Also, can you try to retrieve the Quicken 2007 application from Time Machine? Put it in your current Applications folder or even loose on your desktop. Do a File > Get Info on it; what version number is it? Now, make a copy of the data file you pulled from Time Machine and drag the copy over the Quicken 2007 application to launch it. Describe what happens.
So the above settles that you are in fact using Quicken 2007, the Lion-compatible version that still runs today, and the last modification which was released.
What is hard to explain is why this version of Quicken sees this data file as a Quicken 2004 data file. I'll throw out a few more thoughts and questions to try to help dig into the mystery...
I don't know what could have changed about a Quicken data file to make it appear to the program to be a 2004 data file. I've never heard of that happening. So I'm still wondering if there's a possibility that there's a different Quicken data file somewhere. That is, could this file you've pulled from Time Machine be an old version of your Quicken data, but not the version you've recently been using? That's the only plausible answer I can think of.
Is that December 31 time stamp on the file a time when you used Quicken before your old Mac died? Or is that after you replaced your Mac and were trying to recover?
If you open Time Machine and go a little farther back in time, is the time stamp always recently before the backup? Is the size of the file at all different at different times in the past? Are there recent Quicken data file backups in the backup folder? The questions are aimed at trying to determine if this is indeed the file you were using up until your Mac died. My hope is that somewhere else in your folder hierarchy, there's a different data file which was being used by Quicken 2007 in recent times. (Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a way to search your whole Time Machine backup for files of type-Quicken Data File unless you restore from Time Machine to a hard drive.)
machine backups, copied it to the desktop and tried to import it into
quicken. at first i though it was going to work, but i got a error"
data file created before 2004 not supported" .
Why are you IMPORTING vs just OPENING it ?
- Error Message When Opening file - Unable to open file - QM2007
If this does not work for any of the files you have, then you have corrupted data files that are not recoverable.(If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click "Like", so others will know, thanks.)
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It sure doesn't make sense to me. You clearly have the latest version of Quicken 2007 (version 16.2.4), so I just can't understand how ALL your backup files are being read as Quicken 2004 data files.
You're certain that the data file, and its backups, are not old versions from when you did have Quicken 2004, with your Quicken 2007 data file living somewhere else on your hard drive? That's the only explanation that makes sense to me. But if you've done the Find by Kind search @smayer97 has detailed above and below, and it hasn't turned up any other Quicken Data Files, then it's inexplicable to me how none of your files can be opened.
The only way to open a Quicken 2004 data file would be to obtain a copy of Quicken 2004 through Quicken 2007 (the original, pre-Lion version), which would require a Mac running MacOS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or earlier to run. Neither of those, and particularly the former, are easy to find. And even if you created such a set-up, it's not certain that your Quicken data file would open, because despite the message you're seeing, we believe these files were updated by Quicken 2007.
There's still an unexplained missing piece to this mystery, but I'm out of ideas what to try next.