sub-dir folder - \Backup vs \Backups

thought I would make a different thread with a proper subject, vs drifting my QFNxxx.TMP thread topic.

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ps56k
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I only have 1 backup folder and it is called BACKUP. Mine is located under the Quicken folder in My Documents. I'm using 2008 H&B at the moment but this naming convension on this computer started with 2004. Both my manual and automatic backups go to this single folder.

Did you ever manually do a backup (File>>Backup) and change the default folder name?

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Laura

I did a little exploring.

My Q2010 file organization goes back many years, probably to a Quicken for DOS version.

Back then, the software resided at C:\QUICKEN, and so I created a data subdirectory C:\QUICKEN\WORK.

Over the years, the software moved to C:\Program Files\Quicken, leaving just my data files in \WORK, and somewhen I discovered lower case, so the data was saved to C:\QuickenW\Work. Which is where it resides today.

\Work grew subdirectories, \Q04Files and \Q07Files as I upgraded, and the dreaded \VALIDATE.

Looking at preferences (which I cannot recall changing in years), I see that --

My automatic backups are set to run every 5th use of Quicken, and to save 5 backups. Quicken does not provide any choice of names for this subdirectory. In my case, they are saved in my C:\QuickenW\Work \BACKUP subdirectory. The files are named using my Quicken file name

  • date + time, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.PM11.12.QDF-backup. I have
5 such files.

My manual backups are set to run every 3rd use. Quicken offers a choice of whether and where these are saved. In my case, they are saved to my C:\QuickenW\Work\Backups subdirectory.The files are named using my Quicken file name + date, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.QDF- backup. I have lots (some 80+ going back to my installation of Q2010, plus 1 holdover from Q2007).

The 10 GB of files I deleted must have been 3 years worth generated by Q2007.

Did I select the "Backups" subdirectory at some point? Probably, though I cannot recall doing so. That would explain others not finding such subdirectory on their systems.

thanx

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dave

if you do a search for the file - quicken.ini - you'll probably find a couple versions.... on XP... one default for All Users and also one for each specific User.

open with notepad - and you'll see the entries for the Backup path - I just deleted mine to see what the Backup screen would default to and my Q2009 came up with - A:\ SO... not sure what the original manual Backup default would show... For me, my manual backup was \quicken files\backup2x as in twice

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ps56k

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