Quicken wants to uninstall

How do you know it is uninstalling? It may be doing a repair install. In that case, let it continue. When it is finished the backup will work properly. This has happened to me.

Gregg

Could be. The Quicken recommendation was to uninstall and reinstall in ANOTHER directory. Of course I hate that kind of response, but after restoring from a backup that continued to fail, I did that. It was faster than I expected, and worked OK. Quicken also said this could result from not having administrator powers, but that wasn't true.

} Jim T. wrote: } > Using QP2006. } > When I tell it to backup the file it, for some reason, invokes an } > uninstall! I can kill that, and the backup continues OK, but the next } > time I close it asks about backing up again, as if it doesn't } > remember. } } How do you know it is uninstalling? It may be doing a repair install. In } that case, let it continue. When it is finished the backup will work } properly. This has happened to me.

Trouble is that if you're running in a limited acct, you *CANT* do a 'repair' [or any other kind of] install [indeed, that's a big part of the _point_ of running in a limited acct]. So you're a bit screwed. I even tried making my limited acct temporarily admin, running quicken, letting it do its thing, but when I made it limited it started doing the 'reinstall" crap again.

I did find a sort of workaround: apparently, the program that's causing the trouble is olbackup.exe -- if you replace it with something innocuous [e.g., I have a thing called "test.exe" that I guess is from cygwin that a friend emailed to me] then this problem will go away.

/Bernie\