The problem started when I disconnected a thumb drive without using Windows' "Safely Remove Hardware" application. The computer then would not recognize all my external drives. Ran Registry Mechanic which fixed that problem, but all the drives names except "C" were renamed with differnt names.
I go through the Transaction Sceduling procedure, but none that I schedule show in the Scheduled Transaction List.
Quicken is probably looking for a file that relates to the Scheduled Transactions and can't find it. If that is true why can't I reschedule now?
I've never tried Registry Mechanic. The Disk Management utility is built into every copy of Windows since Windows 2000 and it is THE tool for managing hard disks - and other devices that may be assigned a "drive" letter, such as USB flash drives, cameras and card readers, etc. DM can reassign any drive letter except for the boot volume (which holds the \Windows directory tree) and the system partition (which holds the boot manager and a few other files to start up the computer). In almost all systems, both the boot volume and the system partition are on Drive C:.
In Disk Management, right-click on your thumb drive, then click Properties. On the Policies tab, you can choose between optimizing for Quick removal or Better performance. The Quick removal choice disables write caching, so that all writes are performed immediately. This means that you can "pull the plug" at any time without waiting for the system to flush the cache and turn on the Safely Remove icon. For most of us, this is the correct choice (and is now the default).
This won't solve your existing scheduling problem, but should prevent a recurrence.
Possible I suppose, but I don't think it's likely.
[Did you install Quicken on your C: drive? And your Quicken data was/is on what drive?]
I can only think of two possibilities: corrupted data, or corrupted installation.
For corrupted data: make a Quicken Copy of your Quicken data, then Validate the Copy. If the problem no longer exists in the Validated Copy, make the Validated Copy your regular file.
For a corrupted installation: uninstall Quicken; remove any folders with "Quicken" in their name (unless they contain your Quicken data ... which should reside in a folder all its own). Reinstall Quicken into a new folder; run the installation as "THE" Administrator (as opposed to a Windows User with admin rights).
As far as I know: Only if you remove the drive and that removal interrupts a write to the drive. Quicken writes to disk every time you press Enter, so if the os isn't caching those writes, you should be ok. But it probably doesn't hurt to insure that nothing could possibly be trying to write to a removable drive before you remove it.
It should NOT cause any problems. Unless, of course, you pull the thumb drive before Quicken finishes writing data to it. That's the reason for my previous suggestion: Use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to set the Policies on that thumb drive to Optimize for quick removal.
Remember, though, that Quicken automatically puts its BACKUP folder as a subfolder under your main data folder. So if your main Quicken file is G:\QuickenData\Ron.QDF, you will have 5 (by default) sets of data as G:\QuickenData\BACKUP\Ron1.QDF through Ron5.QDF. If that's a small thumb drive and your database is large, you might not have enough space for six sets of your data. You might also have other backups, but those 5 automatic ones will always be in the BACKUP subfolder, along with the current working copy of your data in the QuickenData folder.
You might want to keep the working copy of your database (along with the 5 automatic backups) on your hard drive, and then keep at least one full backup on the thumb drive. Then you can unplug the thumb drive and store it away from the computer, for safety. Thumb drives are cheap enough that you might want to have more than one of them so that you can store multiple backups in different locations.
WHY do you have your data on the thumb drive? If it is for protection against loss of the backup, then my previous paragraph applies. But if you want to keep your data hidden from other users of your computer, then a different strategy might be needed.
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