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Steve:

In my Q2008 H&B it looks like the minimum number of backups you can specify is 1, maximum is 9. So, there will always be at least one backup.

Bob

But still it does create backups without my consent.

Any way to stop this stupid thing?

I have a backup process on my computer that takes care of saving those files. But I don't want to back up the files I didn't ask for.

Thanks for any help

Sincerely, Steve JORDI

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Steve...

Under the Edit Menu, select Quicken Preferences. Under the Setup options, highlight the Backup entry.

If you don't want any backups to be made, set the first box called "Remind after running Quicken" to 0. This should prevent Quicken from making any backups.

I'd suggest reconsidering your backup methodology if you update Quicken transactions more often than you run your backup routine. If you set Quicken (the box mentioned above) to 1, it will make a backup copy each time you edit Quicken. This will make sure you can always revert back to the "last known good" file in case you screw something up. Personally I believe you can never have too many backups.

Hope that helps,

Dave

Steve...

Under the Edit Menu, select Quicken Preferences. Under the Setup options, highlight the Backup entry.

If you don't want any backups to be made, set the first box called "Remind after running Quicken" to 0. This should prevent Quicken from making any backups.

I'd suggest reconsidering your backup methodology if you update Quicken transactions more often than you run your backup routine. If you set Quicken (the box mentioned above) to 1, it will make a backup copy each time you edit Quicken. This will make sure you can always revert back to the "last known good" file in case you screw something up. Personally I believe you can never have too many backups.

Hope that helps,

Dave

Steve...

Under the Edit Menu, select Quicken Preferences. Under the Setup options, highlight the Backup entry.

If you don't want any backups to be made, set the first box called "Remind after running Quicken" to 0. This should prevent Quicken from making any backups.

I'd suggest reconsidering your backup methodology if you update Quicken transactions more often than you run your backup routine. If you set Quicken (the box mentioned above) to 1, it will make a backup copy each time you edit Quicken. This will make sure you can always revert back to the "last known good" file in case you screw something up. Personally I believe you can never have too many backups.

Hope that helps,

Dave

It won't.

That option only applies to the Quicken "reminder" to backup, it has nothing to do with the automatic backups that Quicken makes.

I don't think so. I think you told Quicken not to "remind you" to backup. There is no way - in Quicken - to tell Quicken not to create any automatic backups.

I can't think of any good reason for doing this: redundancy is good, and in this case it is effortless and takes up negligible disk space.

But, if you're dead set on it, you can prevent Quicken from making any automatic backups. You have to modify the file, Quicken.ini; changing the parameter "AutoCopy" (found in the "[Quicken]" section of the file) to zero.

For Q2008 and Windows XP, Quicken.ini is located in:

\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Config

Hi all,

thanks for your various answers. Yes, it definitely looks like it's not possible to avoid those backup files. Oh well, I'll keep deleting them manually before synchronizing my various hard drives.

Thanks

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It may be possible. At one time it was. There is a "Quicken.ini" file in "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Config". In that file, the line "autocopy=5" controls how many automatic backups are created. In previous versions, it was possible to set it to 0 in the file, and that would work. I haven't tried it since about Q2004 when it did work, so I can't say for sure if it still does work. I'd also recommend backing up the file before editing it.

Note that the "AutoBackup=" line controls how often the program prompts you to do a backup when exiting.

Hope this helps.

Unless you're very short of space on your hard drive I can't imagine why you'd want to delete them? They're not too huge and they might save you some problems some day.

I had a friend who used to use an external encryption file on his data. He decrypted it before starting Quicken. The same script encrypted the files, and backed them up after Quicken ended. He didn't want the unencrypted backup files anywhere on his computer.

I don't do this, but I can see where someone would not want all of their financial data in files that they did not specifically create.