Quicken 2010 upgrade

I noticed that Quicken 2010 takes about twice as long to start up as

2007, but the computer on which I'm observing this lag is arguably no longer modern.

I don't have Q2010 yet. but from what I've read here, the new version combined all of the data files into one big file. If that larger file is badly fragmented, it would slow down the loading of the file, and the program startup. Defragging the hard drive might help.

-- Jim

Yes its one .QDF file now. I posted because my upgrade was 100% uneventful. Frequently negative comments are posted. My experience was positive. Generally speaking I upgrade every year. I waited till the program had been out several months, to minimize issues. It work, I had none. Also on my system there wasn't any system slowdown.

I have a 63MB QDF file and haven't noticed any difference between QD2009 and QD2010.

With an older computer and a slower hard drive, fragmentation would be a bigger issue. Also, if your computer has lots of free disk space, fragmentation wouldn't affect you. In any case, defragging a hard drive can't hurt anything, costs nothing, and may result in some improvement.

-- Jim

Updated from 2007 with only one issue noted so far: The backup option is messed up. What is so hard about simply copying a file??? When I try to back up to a CD-RW, it says it cannot write to it (I ended up copying my hard-drive backup to the CD-RW manually). Also, it appears it can no longer break up a file, so no more backup to floppies!!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again ..... Karen's Replicator.

It is easy to set up, easy to use, and FREE.

-- Jim

Floppies? What are those? ;)

I use Microsoft's free SyncToy 2.1 to back up several folders to an external drive. That includes backing up the Quicken data. There is also a Ghost backup of the drive. The external stuff is for further 'away- from-computer' and off-site backups.

Steven Latus wrote in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

yesterday.

Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 Megabytes and are very slow.

It takes 451 of them to store what you can put on one CDR or CDRW.

Even Windows XP can write to a CDR if you have a burner in your computer.

Even Windows 3.1 can write to a CDR.

Yes, I do it with Karen's Replicator all the time in order to backup Quicken data. But for some reason, Quicken can't. It used to be able to, but then they "fixed" it.

-- Jim

Carl: Actually, my IBM ThinkPads had 3.5" ED Floppy drives that held 2.88 MegaBytes. I still have a case of unused 2.88's I'd stocked up on when the format died :-) Bob

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"CSM1" wrote in message news:Xns9D12677833DDEnomoremail@74.209.136.88... Steven Latus wrote in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net: Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 Megabytes and are very slow.

"Bob Wang" wrote in news:hk80li$v27$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

In that case would you like to have 16 boxes of 5.25 inch disks? Some are 1.2 MB, some are 360K. Most are brand new never used.

Does Q10 have the option to Close the company file so that when you launch the program again you have to select a company file?

If this is the case, then closing the company file before exiting the program should speed up things the next time you open the program. (This is a QuickBooks trick that might work with Quicken.)

JimH wrote in news:2CJ9n.15421$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe14.iad:

I don't write directly to the CD or CDRW in Quicken.

Instead I write the backup file to a folder (I created a folder just for the Quicken backup) on my hard drive, then copy that file/folder to a CDRW. I use Nero InCD to write to a packet CDRW disk.

That works great in Quicken Deluxe 2010.

I have not tried to write directly to a cdrw in Quicken ever since they "Fixed it" in Quicken 2000.

I tried that for a while, but I didn't want yet another copy of my Quicken data on the hard drive. As long as it is manually removed, then there is no problem. But, I've given away old computers to family and friends. I don't want too many copies of critical data that I have to remember to clean up. I tried to disable the automatic Quicken backups for this same reason. There used to be a way to do it by editing one of the ini files, but one version of Quicken broke that also, causing some side affect, so I ended up turning the automatic backups back on.

I have Karen's Replicator set up to create a folder on a DVD with the current date in the name of the folder. It then copies the original Quicken data files into that folder. With one click of a button, it creates a new backup on the DVD each day. Each quarter, the DVD goes to my safety deposit box at the bank, and I start a new DVD.

-- Jim

A suggestion: Since even long deleted data is recoverable on an HD, when setting up a machine, I generally create a 'Basic' image (I use Acronis TI) that can be restored to the HD if I should later decied to donate the HD to someone. Of course, before this, I use a disc wiper utility to completely clean the HD. Several passes and I know my data is irrecoverable.

Mikel

My new computer doesn't have a floppy drive.

I opted for one when I had bought my last PC 5 years ago, but since I can't remember when I even last used a floppy, this time I opted to do without.

Just about anything worth backing up today exceeds the capacity of a single floppy. Viva USB drives, CDs, DVDs and online backup!