Directly load your IDB file from Quicken Home Inventory on any 64 bit Windows system. It works on 32 bit as well, of course. Today, a new version of Attic Manager is released, version 3.00. This version is able to load data directly from IDB files, there is no need to install any additional software. You don’t even have to have Quicken installed. This also means that you can run this option on 64 bit Windows 7 for example, or even on Linux.

Attic Manager can also load the inventory data from QHI and MDF files. QHI files are also loaded without any additional software.

For MDF files you need to have Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition installed. This is a freeware from Microsoft that comes with QHIM, so if you already have Quicken installed on the same computer, you don’t need to install anything.

In any case, Attic Manager is now unique software on the market, being able to load all Quicken Home Inventory formats and allowing you to keep track of your items on any PC.

There are even hints of Mac version coming soon.

No, Quicken does not support 64bit Windows 7 yet. And there are no plans to do so. A few months back, GuacoSoft has released a new version of Attic Manager that is able to load data from Quicken directly. You can then export it into csv, excel, whatever OR simply use Attic Manager to manage the inventory.

Initial version of Attic Manager with this support (2.03) was only able to load data from .MDF files. However, a new version (2.50) is out now that supports .QHI files as well. It can load all data from .MDF. For files with .QHI extension, it loads all the data except image thumbnails. However, if you still keep your original images on the disk in same location where they were when you loaded them into QHIM, the Attic Manager will pick them up while importing and create thumbnails automatically. Not only that, but it will store a copy of each image into it’s database, so that you never lose it in the future.

So far, this is the only way to extract data from Quicken, and it’s really the only Home Inventory program on the market that enables you to transfer all your data before migrating to a new program.

Unfortunately, Quicken Home Inventory does not work on Windows 7, and you might have a hard time switching to another program because QHI does not have an option to export the data.

However, there’s a way to work around this. A program called Attic Manager, can import the data directly from Quicken database, even if you don’t have Quicken installed. It even works on 64bit Windows. You just need to have your QHI.MDF database backup file.

Once data is in Attic Manager you can export it to CSV format which can be imported into Excel, OpenOffice and almost all the other Home Inventory software. Or, maybe once you try it, you would stick to using Attic Manager.