active account was deleted instead of old account

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?)

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.

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

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.

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