Hi, Barauskas.
As John said, Quicken should work much better with a shorter filename for your data fileset.
Quicken was designed back in the pre-Windows days of MS-DOS when computer resources were much more scarce and dear. Filenames (and foldernames) were limited to no more than 8 characters, plus, optionally, an extension of no more than 3. Those usable characters were limited to digits and English-alphabet letters, plus a very few "special characters" (- and _ and not much else). NO spaces. The period could be used only to separate the filename from the extension.
Later operating systems liberalized file naming rules to what we have today. But, internally, Windows almost always still uses good old "8.3" filenames. If you'd like to see what I mean, open a Command Prompt window (Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt) and type: Dir /x
This will produce a listing of all the files and folders in whichever folder you are looking at. But the /x switch will also produce an extra column, before the filename column, showing the 8.3 filename for each file or folder that has a name that doesn't conform to the old 8.3 rules. We call these Short File Names (SFN) and Long File Names (LFN), although the rules often require a SFN to be created for an "LFN" that is only a few characters. For example, if you abbreviated your QDF filename to "Bar Fin.QDF", you would see that name in both Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt window. But if you use the /x switch in the Command Prompt window, you would see that the system has created the SFN "BARFIN~1.QDF" for it, discarding the space (an illegal character) and adding the "~1" to indicate that this is the first "BARFIN" resulting from such change.
For your "BARAUSKAS FINANCES.QDF" filename, the SFN is "BARAUS~1.QDF". This uses the first 6 characters of your LFN, leaving 2 places available to add the "~1". If you had a second .QDF file starting with BARAUS (BARAUSKAS History.QDF, for example), it would become "BARAUS~2.QDF".
This lengthy explanation is only the beginning of these file naming rules, but it ought to illustrate why we recommend that you use a QDF filename with no more than 7 (or 6) characters, and with no spaces or other special characters. If you look in your \BACKUP subfolder (yes, the name is in ALL CAPS), you should see several (five, by default) generations of backups of your fileset. They should be dated a week apart, and their names will probably be "BARAUSK1.*" through "BARAUSK5.*. In other words, Quicken shortens your fileset's filename to no more than 7 characters and adds a single digit to indicate how recent the backup is. We recommend NOT using a digit as the final character of your filename because it invites confusion when Quicken adds another digit.
And a "fully qualified filename" would include the full path, such as: "C:\Program Files\Quicken\BARAUSKAS FINANCES.QDF"
RC