In previous quickens, there was an option under "File Operations" to delete previous backups from within Quicken to recover disk space. This option was removed in Q 2011.
How does one now do it in Q2011? I need to do it from time to time because I use an encrypted partition which runs out of space.
Jeff
As of Q 2009 (?) or Q 2010 (?), there is no longer a fileset like there was before. All the logical Q files are now contained within the single .qdf file; so I just maintain these with the normal Windows Explorer and delete them from the list of files as needed. That's one reason I use the append date/time stamp to the file backups so I can easily tell the creation date/time of these (yes, I know one could also look at the actual date and time stamp).
Thank you for replying. I just recently converted to 2011 from 2008 and I see in my backups more than just *.qdf files. I also have qel, qph, qtx, and idx files. Not sure what to do.
There are also some -TMP files.
Hi, Jeff.
As Andrew reminded us, before Q2010, what Intuit called a Quicken "file" was actually SET of related files (which we often referred to here as a "fileset"). There was always the main Quicken Data File, with the .qdf extension. And, depending on how YOU used Quicken, there would probably be several related files with extensions like the ones you mentioned. (We could guess at the meanings of some of them: .qel for downloaded data, .qph for historical prices, .qtx for tax data, .idx for some kind of index, etc.) While most of the data was in .qdf, the whole fileset was needed for Quicken to work properly. So long as we let Quicken handle file functions, such as Copy and Backup, it knew to deal with the whole fileset. But when we used "normal" Windows (or DOS) commands to Copy a file, WE had to remember to copy ALL the files in the set. Many users forgot - or never knew - about this and ended up with an unusable Quicken "file" after moving to a new computer or a new folder.
Q2010 was the first to combine all those related files into the one .qdf file. You'll note that your new .qdf file is probably much larger that the old version, but it may be smaller than the total of the former "fileset". That's OK; now you need only the single file. ; date/time stamp to the file backups so I can easily tell the creation
Thank you for replying. I just recently converted to 2011 from 2008 and I see in my backups more than just *.qdf files. I also have qel, qph, qtx, and idx files. Not sure what to do.
Thank you. I guess the multiple files I have in my backup folder are from the pre-2011 backups.
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