Backup copies are not rolling over

Oct 20, 2007 2 Replies

Thankfully I've not needed to make use of backup copies of my Quicken data. Recently I finally abandoned my backups on floppies and am currently backing up to my hard disk (as well as periodically burning DVD backups of my hard disk.)



But in looking at my backups on the hard disk I see that the files are not rolling over per the scheme as described by Quicken. That is the most recent backup prior to the current backup should be renamed to and then , where n is the maximum number of backups specified in the options setting is deleted. Rather, only teh most current backup is saved in teh backup directory.



Any ideas on what is preventing the proper behaviour?



I'm using Q2002 Basic, WInXP and I have 4 different files I'm backing up (all 4 behave the same way.)


John Keith snipped-for-privacy@juno.com


The "scheme" you are referring to pertains only to the backups that Quicken makes automatically every 7 days or so; it has nothing to do with the backups that you initiate.

John,

Thank you for clarifying that significant point. I completely missed that point in the online help which clearly says every 7 days and the example even has dates separated by 7 days. Another example of RTFM!

John Keith snipped-for-privacy@juno.com

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