Some time ago, the name of the 'My Account' files got a date associated with them, as in - 'My Account_20060610'. Now, when Quicken backups up the My Account files, I get that date, plus the current date is associated with the account file, as in - My Account_20060610_20091005.
I would like to rename the file to just 'My Account', dropping the '20060610'.
How would I do that?
I would also like to eliminate some of the old 'previously accessed' files that are listed in the 'File' drop-down menu. Where are the 'File' items listed? How do I remove them?
MikeB wrote in news:9d1bae14-740a-44ce-a1bd- snipped-for-privacy@j9g2000vbp.googlegroups.com:
Careful now, you need to rename/move ALL files associated with that particular qdf file!!!!
The easiest way is to a File|File operations|copy or rename file operation. Either copy or rename will do. Of course the copy will let you put the file SET in a different location.
As far as all those files in the dropdown menu is concerned, I believe that would involve editing (one of) the ini file(s). Easy enough, but may also lead to mistakes.
Better for all these thing to make a shortcut on your desktop to the qdf file of your file set. Use the shortcut to launch the program. MUCH EASIER. You can have multiple shortcuts to different file sets (home, business, church, boy scouts, genealogy society, etc, etc).
Use Quicken's File | File Operations menu. Choose Rename to change the name of ALL the files (.qdf, .qel, .qtx, etc. depending on how YOU use Quicken) at once to the new name. Or choose Copy to copy them ALL to a new name, perhaps in a different location. (If you exit Quicken and use a different tool, such as Windows' Copy or Rename, be sure to include ALL the related files in the set.)
Once the name has been changed, using either method, browse to the newly-named .qdf file and double-click it. This should start Quicken with your new file loaded as the current working file. Use Quicken Backup to save this new file to a location of your choice. Subsequent Quicken backups will go to the same location - until you change it.
Quicken offers to add a date to the filename when backing up a file. See the checkbox below the destination folder box on the Quicken Backup screen. Some users like this option, but I think it invites confusion unless we are very diligent about cleaning up outdated backups.
You apparently used this at least once back in 2006 and the date got appended to the backup of your then-current working filename. If that file with the 2006 date is current now, then you must have been using it since
2006! (Be sure that it really is current and is not missing transactions between 2006 and now.) And yesterday, when you backed up that file again, that "add the date" box apparently was checked again, resulting in your double-dated backup file.
These names are a "most recently used" (MRU) listing. As you use other files, these will eventually scroll off the list - but it may take a very long time if you use just one or a few files over and over. The list is kept in a Quicken file, but the name and location of the file has changed with versions of Quicken and Windows - and you didn't tell us what you are using. In my Win7/Q2009, I find it at: C:\Users\RC\AppData\Roaming\Intuit\Quicken\Config\QUSER.INI
Your pathname will be different, of course, especially if you are using WinXP, but this might help you find it. I have 4 possible entries under [RecentFiles] but only one has an entry since I've used only one since my most-recent installation of Quicken.
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