Backup Question

In File > Backup and Restore > Backup Quicken file, change the name for the backup file in one of your two different files. You probably also want to check the box to add the date to the backup files.

In Edit > Preferences > Quicken Preferences > Backup you can make some more choices.

trvlnmny wrote in news:25f9922b-99d2-431b-82d2- snipped-for-privacy@q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:

I have two different Q files. One is a separate organization and one my personal file. I created two shortcuts, one for each file. When I click on the shortcut Q opens in that file. My backupsare separate and the files are separate.

bdog

Targ, What you suggested is what I am doing. The problem is I do not want to have to change the name of the backup file. If I am in Q file A I want the back file name to be A. If I am in Q file B i want the backup file name to be B. I do not want to have to change it. If my previous use of Q was on file A and I backed that up then the backup file name will be A. BUT if my previous use of Q was on file B and now I am in file A then the backup file name will be B and I will have to change it to A. This is n0ot what I want to do. I want the backup file name to always beflect the Q file I am working on.

BD, Your suggestion sounds workable. How do you go about setting up 2 shortcuts to Q that know which file is to be opened? I would appreciate some help with that. Thanks.

I used this setup in Money and it worked just as well. What I did was leave my personal files as one Money file. I then created a new file for my organization, under a different name, i.e. 'My Org'. When that was finished I saved that file. I went to the directory where the files were stored and created a shortcut for that file and placed it on my desktop. I then went to the original personal file and made a shortcut of that file and placed it on the desktop. I now have two shorcuts. I click on whichever one I want to work with. The backups are done under the name of the file which I am using. When I switched to Quicken I just converted the two files under their own names. I have Quicken 2010 Home and Business.

I guess you can make a shortcut for your file, and save it under its present name. Then open it again, strip out your personal files and just leave the organization's file and save under a different name. Go to that saved file and make a shortcut and place it on the desktop. You will then have two files and different backups. Make sure you have a good backup in case you screw up. You know about Murphy don't you? :)

bd

I believe you are confusing the terminology of "files" and "accounts". Files each have their separate accounts and do not intermingle with accounts in any other File. Therefore the back-ups are always unique to the file which is open when you call for a back- up. Also the file which is open when you close Q. will be the one to open when you open the program again.

Thanks to all. I have found the error of my ways. I already have my personal accounts in a Q file and the clubs accounts in another Q file. When I do a backup i do so to a Zip drive, remember them using a separate disk for each. On each disk I had a folder into which I backed up the file. The folder name was different on each disk. What I had to change on the Q Backup screen was not really the file name but the folder name. I moved all the files from the folder to the root for the disk and removed the folder. Now I am flying high. Thanks again to one and all.

ZIP DRIVE -

you might reconsider - since it's mechanical, it will fail -

Thumb drives can fail also. They have no error detection or correction. They can introduce undetected errors into the data. I would never consider it as a backup. They are designed for easy transport of data, not backup.

I backup to DVD's. I always have multiple copies. I replace the DVD every quarter, and keep the old ones at the bank. I have had to go back to old copies several times, and they have always worked for me.

-- Jim