I messed up a few transactions and needed to restore by quicken file. So, I did the "restore" from the "backup" sub-dir. I was disappointed that the file names were the backup names, and not the "root" name of the quicken file ie - qdata2 was the original file and qdata21 was the backup name and that's what became the quicken name "qdata21"
Let's be realistic.
First: restored files retain the name of the backup files.
Second: those backups (in the BACKUP folder) are the ones that Quicken makes automatically for you; the automatic backup feature is designed to *supplement* the backups that you make yourself ... to bail you out in the event one of your backups turns out to be bad, or is lost. There is no way to keep multiple copies of the same file in the same folder and give them all the same name. Putting the auto-backups in the same folder and appending a digit to each copy provides a reasonably simple and affordable mechanism to provide this extra measure of safety.
If you find recovering from backups with an extra digit suffixed to the file name too onerous a task (delete/restore/rename or rename/restore/rename just doesn't sound that tough to me) and want to restore from backups whose name is exactly the same as the original, manually create your own backups ... and put them in different folders if you need multiple backups.
I merely thought that the /backup/ sub-dir with the numbered backups would be restored over the root name - since they were created from the root name file
Once you've restored your backup of whatever filename it happens to be and you are sure your bad datafile is bad, all you need to do is "save as" into the original directory of your bad datafile with the same filename as your bad datafile and it will overwrite it. Next time you open Quicken it will open your newly saved datafile. If you have datafile shortcuts on the desktop to open different filesets, these will still work. By default Quicken will save a fileset with the same name as it opened with, but you can make it do otherwise.
Al Reeve
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