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Dropbox hates Quicken

Dropbox copies whatever files you put into your Dropbox directory to the cloud and then synchronizes with any other computers you have configured. It works well with Excel and Word files but it does not seem to like Quicken.

I first tried it with Q 2010 Deluxe and found that it destroyed all reports. Click on reports and it would crash.

With 2011, reports are OK but if I click on a liability account I set up for accruals, it crashes. I am back to schlepping my Q files on a thumb drive but I wondered if any had found a fix or setting.

Thanks

Mr. jan

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Mr.Jan
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Are you accessing the Dropbox copy directly using Quicken or the one on your hard drive? In theory, you should be able to access the Dropbox copy--I know folks that claim they can do this with QuickBooks so I don't see why it wouldnot work with Quicken files.

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Laura

Laura wrote in news:iah5c4$rfh$ snipped-for-privacy@n102.xanadu- bbs.net:

The difficulty I see is that the Quicken database is not set up for multiple users. I believe that means that if you are editing the file that Dropbox is at the same time synchronizing, you will invite disaster. Quickbooks may be set up to lock database records that are opened, and therefore such database corruption would not occur (hopefully).

I firmly believe that you should work on a local copy of your database, then close Quicken and only then copy the file(s) to dropbox or Livemesh. Then leave things in peace until the cloud system has indeed synchronized the files. Then on the other machine, copy the "new" file(s) from Dropbox to a working directory before attempting to open it.

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Han

Your explanation makes sense. QB does support multiple users but you have to pay extra for it. Whether it locks database records in single user mode is a good question.

Your transfer method sounds like the best and safest solution while using any of these "cloud" storage sites.

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Laura

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