We've spent the entire morning doing stupid computer tricks... or more specifically restoring our back-up Quicken files from the outboard hard drive to the backup box. More specifically yet... trying to restore those files. Without success.
The restore process began simply enough. I got a message after the process was complete saying "1274 files successfuly restored." I opened Quicken. TRIED to open Quicken. It wouldn't run because "Application fail. sumthin.DLL is missing. Try reloading the application." I reload the application from disk. I get this:
"Quicken 2002 New User Edition will not import files from previous editions. You must upgrade."
Or words to that effect. More farting around with the application. Uninstall and re-install. Reload the backed-up files. NOTHING worked. Well, it's the first of the month and the bills are due. There are records to be kept, as well. (Unnecessary confession: we ceased maintaining our paper checkbook register back around 1998 when we moved to computerized accounting... therefore a Quicken restoral is REQUIRED.)
So. We upgraded. Bought Quicken 2010, downloaded and installed same. Guess what? Quicken 2010 apparently does NOT recognize Quicken 2002 New User Edition files -- I was unable to import my backed-up data. Used the ultimate fallback solution: I downloaded two years of financial data... which is all there is... from my credit union. I verified the last three months of downloaded data against statements and carbons of my last 30 or so checks (we use the duplicate type checks). Everything appears to be in order.
Paid the bills. Still wondering how we'll recover transactions prior to January 1, 2008... but at this point we don't much care.
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