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To: Carolyn S. who wrote (8725)	2/22/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: Richard Estes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

If you have a disk buffer that can go. can't it?

To: Carolyn S. who wrote (8725)	2/23/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: John Schott	Respond to of 11149

Deleting Files for Space to Install of QP2.1 [You might wait for confirmation of the following from others here if you have any doubts - I think this is OK info.] If I understand your goal, you have QP2 and want to install QP2.1 over it. There are two disks I assume you have: The recently received QP2.1 disk and the data history disk you got with QP2.0 (should be dated 3-31-98, but might be dated later. If you delete your old data, you will loose your history. But the new QP2.1 disk has history on it too. So basically after installation, you will have a newly installed "recent history" from the first disk (I think it is about 2 years typically) and can then install more history from the older history disk to get up to 6 years if you want. This would leave you with QP2.1 plus all the history up to the date your QP2.1 disk was made - the date before it was mailed. Now, when you log-on QP2.1 will update all the history from the current day back to the date the QP2.1 disk was made. If you haven't had the disk for long, this might be a week or two. However, if you had a older disk, deleting the data might be a bad idea as I don't know how much on-line history there is - perhaps only a month or so. Then you'd be in trouble. Note that originally QP2 kept the data after 3-31-98 in one file and had a second file for history earlier than that. (Many people put in on another disk for speed.) With the newest versions, that old, second history file was eliminated - so if you still have it, that might be something you could delete. The alternative is to back up anything you can to make about 230MB of free space, install QP2.1 and the data you need. (The initial installation plus about two years of history data seems to take a lot less than 230MB). Then you can restore whatever you backed up to the extent you have room.