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active account was deleted instead of old account

I am working on XP home with a Quicken 2004 program. Today I thought I was deleting an account that we have closed at the bank, through this route: Tools/Account List/Manage Accounts/Delete...I had highlighted the old account that needed to be deleted, so I was horrified when for some reason my active account was deleted instead...Then I went back to check something, maybe to try to get to my back-up file, but when I went out of the page the computer automatically backed up what I had done, apparently replacing my back-up file. I looked in my trash bin, but I can't find the deleted file anywhere. This is a few years work I've lost, but the most important work was for the last 5 months...any ideas of places I can look where I might find the deleted account?

-- Peace, Ed Bridge Brooklyn N.Y.

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How about: File > Restore Backup File > Browse, and click on the Backup directory and pick QDATA1.

Or, how about the backup before the one just overwritten (you ARE keeping more than 1 backup ... right?)

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danbrown

If you take manual backups, restore the last backup you took manually.

If you don't, then:

Look in the folder your data file is located. Inside that folder is a folder BACKUP. Look inside BACKUP for a file with filetype .qdf and where the last number before the "." is "2". (Eg. QDATA2.QDF). The 1.qdf is the backup you took while quitting the program after you made your blunder. If you have located the file, then do as Dan Brown suggest. Whatever you do, don't open the file in the BACKUP folder itself.

If there is not a 2.QDF, you are toast. You can consider sending your harddrive to Quicken data recovery services - I think it costs in the area of $65-$135 for basic recovery.

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Mike B

Mike and Dan

Well we are not toast (yet) thank you for your help,that was so close, I sent my wife your replies and she nail it about an hour ago.

We're going back up Quicken now on to another hard drive just like recordings ,each night, that was crazy.

I don't understand why we can't open file in the BACKUP folder itself, but I'm glad we didn't.

Peace, Ed Bridge

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Edward Bridge

Look at my Post on 5/22 and replies by John and Mike and you'll see some reasons why it's not a good idea to do that.

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Andrew

I just read it "whew" we got lucky this time... I always back up ( on a second PC) all our recordings but something more important, our _books_ We didn't, until tonight.

-- Peace, Ed Bridge

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Edward Bridge

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