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QD2010 R3 available with Overwriting Backup fix available BUT....

Geez - so R3 is now available with the fix to allow overwriting of backup file. BUT!!

Not that I am complaining, but they implemented it so that when Q sees a backup file of the same name, you get a pop up box that gives you TWO choices - one is to allow overwriting, the other just CANCELS the operation! No option to NOT overwrite but STILL do a backup with a new name. That's going to get some people bummed out since I suspect some folks LIKE having the multiples (indeed, I would like to still have that option perhaps too!).

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Andrew
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"Andrew" wrote in news:4afd5728$0$22528$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

Thanks Andrew I had been planning to go from my current Q2008 DL (US) to the Q2010 version. But if they can't make a functional backup system that will behave as I want it (ultiple backups with dates in the filename) then Intuit will have to wait for my money until they fix the backup process properly.

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Han

Hmmm. Too bad they didn't make a global setting where we could set how we'd like backup to occur, i.e., multiple daily backups or one backup per day with overwriting. IMNSHO, it should be possible to at least turn off the prompt popup. Regardless, that popup should offer to overwrite the existing backup or write a new one with a number appended (as it works in R2).

I like to run my backup from a shortcut on the tool bar, which goes right ahead and does the backup w/o interruption. If this change means I now have an extra click or two, I won't be happy.

I'll be interested to see how this actually works, once I'm offered the update. As the new scenario is described, makes me wonder if whomever designed this actually does backups!

Regards,

Margaret

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Margaret

No - Intuit will have to wait no longer than 2011 when they cripple 2008 and give you no choice :-(

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Marc Auslander

Marc Auslander wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@aptiva.optonline.net:

Ha! But then I will likely be retired and change over to Linux!

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Han

Well, Q 2010 DID do the multiple backups for R1-R2. That was the problem; the user had no control - it was their way or the highway. Unlike previous versions, it ALWAYS made a new backup with a different file name (-1, 2 etc.). They took that function away due to pressure not to create so many copies, but they should have left the option in so that some people might like the way it worked recently (multiple backups, but have a choice.); well, given one or the other, I'm glad it is back to the way it worked previously.

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Andrew

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