Quicken 2005 recently started opening a previous copy when accessed. For instance when I signed on, copy 05062007 opened instead of copy
05092007. Shouldn't it open with the same copy previously exited? Thanks, BillBill Rueck wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Use shortcuts to the relevant qdf file, rather than the exe file.
A more important question is: why are you opening "backup" files?
Quicken, rightfully, does not ever intend to default to opening any backup file ... most current, or otherwise. And you shouldn't be opening your backups either: once you do, they can no longer be considered backups ... to say nothing of the added risk of introducing corruption.
Also, when you modify a file that has a date in its name ... that date no longer has any meaning. If you opened 05062007 on May 9, 2007, made modifications, then backed that file up to
05092007, 05062007 now actually contains data from May 9, 2007; in fact, it is a duplicate of 05092007. Makes the dates kind of meaningless.Choose a file name to be your current file, RUECK, for example. Always open that file, always add, change, delete, etc. in that file. When you finish work for the day, backup that file. If you like dates in the backup file names, have Quicken add them. But plan to never *open* any of those backup files.
The only things you should ever do with backup files is: "restore" or "copy" them And the "copy" should be done by software that does not have to *open* the file to do the copy - Windows Explorer, for example; remembering that your Quicken data resides in multiple Windows files, RUECK.*, for example.)
And remember that restoring a backup with a different name than your current data (a backup with a date in its name) will require a couple of extra steps: two renames, or a delete and a rename.
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