Neighbor has installed 2005deluxe. When he tries to backup to floppies it completes the first disk and tells you to insert the second disk. When he inserts the 2nd disk and clicks Ok he gets Quicken backup file not found. Cannot complete the backup.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Phil B.
I don't know if you intended to quote the messages received or not, but I can't find any such text in the Intuit kb articles.
Make sure the floppy is not damaged and is writable. If that doesn't help, try Validating the data file.
From: "Phil"
| | Neighbor has installed 2005deluxe. When he tries to backup to floppies it | completes the first disk and tells you to insert the second disk. When he | inserts the 2nd disk and clicks Ok he gets Quicken backup file not found. | Cannot complete the backup. | | Any help appreciated. Thanks. | | Phil B.
That's a lousy idea !
Floppies are low quality storage devices and can't be trusted to hold data reliably.
He should look at ZIP drives and disks, burning a CDROM, USB Flash drives or other more reliable media.
flash drive is good if neighbor has usb port.
From: "Alan"
| flash drive is good if neighbor has usb port. |
At ~$10.00 US per port, its not expensive to add and neither is the Flash Drive.
I've had really lousy luck with zip drives. I've managed to go through three of them before I left that format behind forever. Now I back up to rewritable CD. And you're right; the floppy is a piss poor method to back up Quicken. You don't want to use anything that takes more than one piece of media.
USB Flash drives are excellent also, like you said.
From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" . | | I've had really lousy luck with zip drives. I've managed to go through three of | them before I left that format behind forever. Now I back up to rewritable CD. | And you're right; the floppy is a piss poor method to back up Quicken. You | don't want to use anything that takes more than one piece of media. | | USB Flash drives are excellent also, like you said. |
I have been using ZIP drives for a very long time. Originally a SCSI ZIP 100MB. It did succomb to the "click of death". I replaced it with a USB 2.0, USB powered, ZIP
250MB and it works falwlessly.
What's a floppy?
It's been a while since I've used floppies, but I believe the problem is the disk has files on it. Tell him to format the disks before he does a backup. See if that helps.
What's a floppy? An antique by today's standards The forerunner to CD's
Hello, David! You wrote to Mortimer Schnerd, RN on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:09:49 GMT:
DHL> From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" DHL> . ??|>
??|> I've had really lousy luck with zip drives. I've managed to go ??|> through three of them before I left that format behind forever. Now I ??|> back up to rewritable CD. And you're right; the floppy is a piss poor ??|> method to back up Quicken. You don't want to use anything that takes ??|> more than one piece of media. ??|>
??|> USB Flash drives are excellent also, like you said. ??|>
DHL> I have been using ZIP drives for a very long time. Originally a SCSI DHL> ZIP 100MB. It did succomb to the "click of death". I replaced it DHL> with a USB 2.0, USB powered, ZIP 250MB and it works falwlessly.
I've had several ZIP drives over the years, first SCSI and then USB2.0. We also used several at my office. The drives have lived on, but disks dying were a problem, especially those that were used frequently. (The 250s did seem to last longer than the original 100s though.) I finally decided they were no longer reliable enough. Since then, I've begun using extra hard drives, both internal and external USB2.0, backing up across my LAN to a second machine, and of course, USB2.0 flash drives. Now I only use floppies to boot on occasion, but I've since started making custom CDs for this purpose. Eventually I will stop putting floppy drives in home-built machines altogether.
Regards, Margaret
A floppy is what you *must* have for installing manufacturer-supplied device drivers for Windows and for writing a repair disk.
John,
Asked my neighbor to try the floppy backup again with newly formatted floppies. After completing first disk and inserting 2nd disk the message "Could not open Backup file" and then "File not backed up" .
Neighbor is using W98SE on a 6 year old Gateway. He has always been able to back up to a floppy. Are the Quicken files larger in 2005 deluxe than in previous versions?
He doesn't have much data as he only uses it to keep track of his portfolio that has about 20 mutual funds which he updates quarterly.
Many suggestions to use flash drive but Quicken should be able to backup to more than one floppy.
Again any help appreciated. Thanks.
Phil
Try renaming the Quicken data fileset and make sure the file name is not greater than eight characters (I never use more than
7).If that doesn't help, you should still try Validating.
And yes, I believe Quicken "should" and can backup to more than one floppy ... though I personally would only consider using floppies in an emergency (like my CD drive just died and I needed a backup).
And I should have added: make sure there are no special characters in the name.
Hi Phil, Back in the day, I used floppies....as many as 4 to back up my data. Then I went to zips, then CD's and now I use external hard drives but a flash drive would work. You can add USB 2.0 to a computer for under $10. His data is certainly worth more than that and your time for trying to get a dying media format to work is too. I suggest you move him on to something more modern.
Good luck, Tom
It not only WOULD work, it WILL work fine. I've used a flash drive for several years without any problem. However, when my Win2K locks up and I have to reboot, sometimes the share for the flash disk doesn't get reestablished. I found that all I need to do is unplug the USB cable from the 4x expander and plug it in again. A few seconds later every thing will be fine.
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