In the meantime, as long as I have Q10, a back-up question

The Q2010 QDF file now contains all the data that used to be in Quicken non-QDF data files in previous versions (that is: in Q2010, all your Quicken data is stored in one Windows file). I'm surprised your Q2010 QDF file isn't larger than it is, if it was 90Mb in the version you converted from.

It's actually 96Mb. I just checked and realized I misread it. Thanks!

PRNole wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:

When backing up to ther drives on other machines on my network(let), it takes sometimes a while for the other machine to "wake up", at least in my experience. However, it seems that tonight (after a fresh reboot of this machine) those backuos to other machines' hard drives went much faster. I doubt that it is the recent (last few days) upgrade of Q10, but the fact that the network connections were just refreshed.

Try using Windows explorer to access the drive where you back up to, just before you do the actual backup.

As always, this is usenet and YMMV!!!

Yes, I always make sure the backup drive is "awake and alert" when I backup to it, so as to avoid any delay. The point I was trying to make is that backing up the Q2010 data file directly to the backup drive now takes between 45" and 50" whereas backing up the same file to my desktop takes only about 5 secs. Then, if just copy the backed up file from the desktop to the backup drive, it takes the same amount of time (about 5") to simply copy the file as it did to backup the same file to the desktop. IOW, what might there be about the Q2010 file that takes 10x the time to backup directly to the backup drive than doing the same backup to the desktop?