Hi, Jay.
I don't know anything about networks, so I'll let Bruce handle that. But
many Quicken users hang out in the Usenet newsgroup
alt.comp.software.financial.quicken . While Quicken insists that it is not
designed to be used on a network, some of the users in that NG have used it
that way successfully.
As Bruce said, a major difference between WinXP and Vista is that Vista
enforces the rule that WinXP only prescribed: DO NOT put data into the
Program Files folder!
My own experience with Quicken started with the MS-DOS version in 1990 and
has "just growed" like Topsy through the many versions of Quicken and
Windows since then. Since I started dual-booting in about 1998, installed
my first x64 about 2004, and beta tested many builds of Vista and Win7, my
volume/folder/file structure is somewhat atypical. But you may be able to
find something useful in reading about it.
My Quicken files are in E:\QuickenW. Drive E: is a separate volume (named
"Data") that I created a dozen years ago, originally formatted FAT so that I
could access it from both Win9x, which could not read NTFS, and WinNT4,
which could not read FAT32; it's NTFS now, of course. With each successive
version, I've installed Quicken into that same folder - and I've let Quicken
continue its not-recommended practice of keeping its QDATA.QDF file in the
QuickenW folder, along with qw.exe and all the rest of Quicken. The
automatic backup folder, created and updated by Quicken, is
E:\QuickenW\BACKUP; my voluntary additional backups are elsewhere, including
removable storage that I can lock away from the computer. When I install an
updated Quicken, I do not let it install in the default Program Files (x86)
folder; I click Custom install and direct it to E:\QuickenW, overwriting the
earlier version there. By keeping it out of the protected Program Files
folders, I can rely on myself, rather than on Vista, to safeguard my data.
Quicken must be re-installed for each new version, of course, and for each
re-installation of WinXP/Vista/Win7. For each re-install, I insert the
Quicken CD and direct the install to E:\QuickenW. When re-installing
Quicken 2009 Deluxe after installing Win7 RTM, for example, Quicken Setup
simply re-wrote the same files that were on my HD already, but it also wrote
the necessary entries into the Win7 Registry. The I let Quicken immediately
update to the current release level, currently R 6 for Q2009.
This way, I have only a single copy of Quicken on my hard drive, but I can
access it from whichever Windows version I happen to be running at the
moment. Quicken doesn't care whether it is running on 32-bit WinXP Basic or
Win7 Ultimate x64. I can enter checks from Vista x86, then reboot into Win7
x64 and see those checks and my updated balances. The same .qdf file is
being used by both, but I never can have both OSes running at once on my one
and only computer, so there never can be a conflict with both trying to
update the same data at the same time.
So, why do I think this relates to your network question? Because the
little I know about networks leads me to believe that you could do the same
thing, so long as you have only a single Quicken installed in a location
accessible from any of your computers, using only a single .qdf file, and
you are careful to never let more than one computer at a time access it.
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64
"jaygreg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm trying to send a backup of my Quicken file from my Windows XP machine
> to my new Vista machine. I've created a folder in the Quicken program
> directory on Vista called "BU from XP". Here's the path shown on Vista:
> Computer >OS (C)> Program Files (x86) >Quicken >Current Qdata>BU from XP.
>
> When I go to the XP machine and look at My Network Places, I find in the
> Name column:
> * BU from XP machine on Xps435 (the name of my Vista computer)
> * Current Qdata files from XP machine on Xps435
> * Quicken 2008 HB on Xps435
> * Quicken Data Files on Xps435
> * Quicken on Xps435
>
> When I double click any of the above I get ( for eaxample, the first one):
> \\XPS435\BU from XP machine is not accessible. You might not have
> permission to use this network resource. Contact the admin etc.
>
> The network path was not found.
>
> I can understand why it can't find the path; it's not the path. I would
> think that what should appear in the My Network Places tree is a path like
> the one in my first paragraph. I shared the files on the Vista by right
> clicking an making my selection. I'm lost!
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