wine users - Jan 2011 - Quicken 2010 QDF file can't be read on windows machine

Hello,

I've been running Quicken 2010 under Wine for a while now. It works well,
except that various elements redraw themselves over and over again, making it
painfully slow to use.

Now for completely unrelated reasons I'm forced to run a Windows XP VM on my
Linux machine, so I installed Quicken 2010 on the VM as well. When I copied my
QDF file over from ~/.wine to the VM, though, Quicken gives me the error
message, "Quicken is unable to open the data file."

I tried creating a new empty data file on both the VM and under Wine, and Wine
on the VM can't open that file either. Wine under Quicken *can* open the
file I created on the VM, even though the two brand-new "empty" QDF
files are quite a bit different--they're not even the same size.

My first thought was that Wine munges files in some way or other--maybe
endianness, or some sort of character translation, or whatever. I tried running
Winzip under Wine, zipping the QDF file, and unzipping it on the VM. No dice:
the error message was the same.

Any help or advice would be sincerely appreciated!

Thanks,
Len.

Have you tried using a backup file to move the data over?

Alan