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Backup issue

Hi

Memory slips of course, but having upgraded to Home and Business 2012 from 2008, when I was using 2008 I would click on the backup icon at regular intervals to keep saving changes as I worked. I seem to recall that an option was to include date AND time of the backup. So I could save several times in the same session, with each save saving separately.

Now in 2012, doing the same, the only option seems to be to save date of the files, not time. So when I click on the backup icon within the same session I have to allow it to over-write the previous save, rather than save a new file with new time stamp.

Am I missing something or have I remembered it wrong?

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JIP
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Try two on the same day - I think you'll see the time added automatically.

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Cal Tinson

Cal Tinson wrote in news:jbaq55$v0h$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

When the option to automatically add the current date to the name of the backup file is checked, the second backup on the same day will overwrite the first one, and if the warning that it will overwrite is not disabled, you will see that warning. Of course the "new" file will have the time stamp of the second file, but that is not in the file name.

When you get to the box with the backup option to add the date, it is of course very easy to just add an "a" or whatever to the file name, so you have 2 files with almost exactly the same name. Be forewarned that each file is rather big ...

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Han

Weird - Just tried to do two, and got the above. However, here's a snip from my machine:

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Cal Tinson

Cal Tinson wrote in news:jbbd3k$1k4$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Interesting. I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2012, not Home and Business. Would that be the difference?

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Han

There are two kind of backups within Quicken - on demand and automatic. OP was asking about on-demand backup, where there is only an option for a date, but not for time. These backups can be placed in user specified location, even on another drive. Auto backups are run by Quicken itself, and are placed in the Backup folder beneath working directory (where Quicken data file resides). Time stamp is added automatically.

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gk

gk wrote in news:4ecd26d0-01f5-40d3-af9e- snipped-for-privacy@c13g2000vbh.googlegroups.com:

OK, Thanks! I've cleaned up some, and between that and other things I can't check on that now.

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Han

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