Q2010DBackup

John Callaway wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Copy? The usefulness of the backup appellation is that Quicken will know it is a backup, and can then ask whether you want to restore the file. Very simple and useful, IMO.

Why would you want to?

(Just curious to see if there's something you're doing with filenames without file types that I can learn from, or at least consider.)

Up to recently, whenever I backed up thefile to my thumb drive it just named thecurrent file. Now it adds the words -backup to the file.

John Callaway wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

There is a setting in Wondows that says hide extensions. Did you perhaps change that setting recently? Normally, the quicken file ends in .qdf, while the backups end with .qdf-backup. That is as it should be. Before you saw the -backup, did you see the qdf?

John - as Han says, the backup filetype is ".qdf-backup". But I still don't understand why you would want it to backup without that extension even if going to a thumb/flash drive? What difference does that make? (As Han had previous said, with the extension in place, Q would know what to do with the backup file should you need to use it.)

Again, not trying to be picky, just trying to understand what you are doing, or better yet, what you THINK you are doing.)

The reason is that it saves multiple files with the -backup instead of over writing the existing file and thus takes up more space on my thumb drive which I have delete files after a while. It used to just prompt me if I wanted to overwrite and I would say yes. Also they did not have the backup in the file name.

JPC

"John Callaway" wrote in

The reason is that it saves multiple files with the -backup instead of over writing the existing file and thus takes up more space on my thumb drive which I have delete files after a while. It used to just prompt me if I wanted to overwrite and I would say yes. Also they did not have the backup in the file name.

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Q2010 RPM R10 asks me, if I want to overwrite my backups. But I don't have Quicken add the date to the backup name ... that will prevent a lot of overwriting.

And the reason for the new extension, is to prevent users from accidentally "opening" backup files ... which can alter their contents ... which you don't want to do.

OK. I, unlike some others, like having multiple backups so I use the date/time facility and back up Q daily to a separate hard drive. Since I don't use the configuration you are using, and you seem to have a handle on why you're doing that (at least it sounds good!), I understand. Thanks for the education.

I caught a glimpse of "Sharx35" on Wed, 21 Nov

Yes indeed, November 22 2012.

Every time I use Reckon I create backups to 2 internal and 2 external drives. Takes only a few minutes and makes me feel comfortable. :-)

If you were to think I'm probably an old fellow you would be right. ;-)

Erik, I've been on several pensions, some for years!

I don't recall anyone ever losing data because of too many backups.

I caught a glimpse of "Sharx35" on Thu, 22 Nov

I'm only on the old age pension, perhaps point out where I'm missing out on additional pension funds to help me work towards Win 8. :-)

I caught a glimpse of XS11E on Thu, 22 Nov 2012

LOL, thanks for your support.

You a Canadian resident??

What??

I've been to Canada many times (honeymooned in Quebec in fact, lovely province), and normally can understand the Canadian flavor of English, but your sentence doesn't make sense to me :-)

If you meant to say something like 'it is no longer *necessary* (or perhaps *needed* or '*desirable*?) to do ...", I can say that I do a backup to an external drive manually after every session, and indeed my Nero backup facility indeed does a backup every 2 hours to yet ANOTHER drive. When it comes to my financial data, I can NEVER have too many backups. Storage is cheap. My time if I had to recreate my data isn't. No offense, but really, who are you to tell me it isn't needed/necessary/desirable? You have no idea of my circumstances!

(As an aside, I just counted...174 copies (different) copies of my one Quicken data file changed and/or backed up on different dates (I update Quicken virtually daily) spread across three different media volumes. Doesn't include the versions I keep in the Safe Deposit box in DVD format once every few months as well.

I caught a glimpse of "Sharx35" on Fri, 23 Nov

I'm Australian.

Sorry, Erik, well I am somewhat of a semi-expert on Canadian pension matters, I know diddly squat about Aussie pensions. Good luck!

Somehow the words "absolutely necessary" got dropped from the sentence. The fingers aren't as fast as the mind, you know! Actually, I have many dozens of Quicken backups--on external HD, on HD, and thumb drive. I used to do the thumbdrive backups almost as often as you...at least once a day...all manually, rotating over 3 thumbdrives in addition to all the HD backups. Now I rely on the Quicken program backups plus the external HD one which is done as soon as the system has 5 minutes of idleness, usually very soon after a Quicken session.

I certainly agree with the statement: "No one ever suffered from TOO many backups, just too FEW!!!!!".

David