Backup got Smaller

Jul 30, 2005 3 Replies

I'm using Quicken 2004. I back up to an external hard drive and also to floppies.



Prior backups required 3 floppies. Today, after entering data to my checkbook, it pnly asked for 2 floppies,



Any guess as to what is going on?


It *must* be corrupt!!! Proceed with care ;) You haven't done any clean-ups lately have you? (like year-end copies etc)

During the last few years, a few things are certain; death, taxes, and ... Quicken file bloat (and who ever asked them to make the files uncompressible??????) I even remember a brief discussion a while back about trying to remove all the stocks, transactions and accounts from a Quicken file and still be left with 6 MB (from 10 with everything in it) of ..... nothing(?) :)

Spyro PS. I wouldn't worry too much about the 3 floppy --> 2 floppy thing, you were probably barely in need of the 3rd one; it will reach 4 with Quicken

2005 or 2006. Check you hard-drive backups (wherever Quicken stores the backups it makes, probably someth> I'm using Quicken 2004. I back up to an external hard drive and also to > floppies. >

Thanks for the reply. I'll keep an eye on it.

Just a wild wild guess here: Are you set up on a fiscal year basis instead of a calendar year basis? And if so, did you do any kind of end-of-(fiscal)-year cleanup? I wouldn't suggest this as the potential reason if you were asking at any other time of year, but since you posted just a month after the end of the traditional fiscal year, I was just wondering.

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