Number of Backup Copies

Hi, Ron.

Too bad that typo in the folder name caused confusion. It's just that computers can be so picky about filenames and folder names. And it wasn't clear that it WAS a typo; you might very well have had a folder named "Backups". That would have been a clear indication that it was NOT Quicken's backup folder, so we needed to be sure of the actual name of the folder. Seeing that folder name in the non-default location for Quicken added to the possibility that it was not the folder we were looking for.

It's perfectly acceptable to have Quicken's data in a different location from the executables, of course. Many users have multiple filesets stored in multiple locations on their computers. It's also possible to have multiple filesets - with different names, of course - within the Quicken folder. Preferences does not even have a setting for the data file location. Just put the file wherever you want it, and \My Documents\Quicken is as good as any.

RC

Maybe I was away that day and did not log into Quicken. If my backups are normally made on a certain day of the week and I do not turn Quicken on that day, will it wait a week before making the automatic backup or will it do it on the next day that the program is turned on?

I installed Quicken 2005 on Sunday, 2/6/2005. But I recently changed the number of backups from three to five; that would explain why there are only three weekly backups with the correct date.

Okay--and if I do not I will write again for advice!

Caryl

Unless I am away I almost always turn on Quicken every morning, because I daily use the one step update for my stock portfolios. We do travel alot, but were definitely not away for that long period of time between

3/7/2005 and 7/25/2006. But I will not worry about that gap as it seems to be working correctly now.

I have never been accused of "excessive tidiness" either in my computer files or my apartment! Since I never knew where the automatic backups were kept until I started to read this string, deleting old backup files is not a possibility.

Thanks to you and R.C. for all the time you both have spent helping me with this.

Caryl

Hi, Caryl.

I don't know. When you find out, post it here so that the rest of us will know, too. The beauty of a newsgroup is that we all learn from each other. We learn one day, teach the next. ;>Your current

That makes sense. I still don't know when (or whether) it will automatically delete the old QDATA4 and 5. Perhaps you can teach us that, too.

Great!

RC

RC,

It is now the end of August and I have the five backup data sets you noted above. However, I have one additional file in the BACKUP folder called Q3, Dir File, 1 kb, created and modified 7/7/02. Am I correct that this is from an old version of Quicken and can be deleted?

Thanks. Caryl

Hi, Caryl.

Yes. Just delete that Q3.dir file dated 2002. It apparently is only an artifact of Quicken's past lives. ;