Too many data files

Delete the older ones.

Ralph: I keep an "Old Files" folder where I move inactive files. Bob

That did the trick. Thanx folks.

Ralph

Try adding each backup to it's own directory. Sounds like you have a version earlier that 2010. Good news is that Q10 has a single backup file now....

Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP W> I get the message "Quicken's most recently used files list can only show the

You're right. I'm running 2008Dx. I don't anticipate upgrading in the near future. Am fed up with the "screw up what works to justify a new version" mentality. I'll just keep transferring old files to a new folder periodically.

Ralph

I do my backups to a couple of little flash drives. I keep about the last three backups... each time I do a new backup, I delete the oldest.

One caveat here... flash drives are only good for so many read/writes. Every now and then, replace them... they're cheap. Smash the old one with a hammer. Keep at least one off-site, in a sefe deposit box or something. Heck, you could even splurge for a slightly bigger one and keep all of the old backups you want! :-)

I do my backups encrypted, to an external drive.

Ralph

Make a second data folder and move all the files over the limit into the new folder.

You could have 50 files in DATA1, for example, and the rest in DATA2.

Add more folders as needed. :)

What kind of obsessive idiot KEEPS that many files?

must be a "Monk" fan.

Writing (and reading) to a memory cell on a DRAM does not in any way damage the cell. What idiot told you that or did you make it up?

That is like saying you can only freeze and thaw water so many times before you need to replace it.

john

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read/writes.

I suppose you would never change the cooking oil in a fry pot. Cooking oil has a limit how much food you can fry in the same oil.

Water gets dirty and a breeding ground for bacteria. You would want to change the water often.

It is not a myth. It is the type of memory.

Three different sources.

How about straight from a memory manufacturer. See: Flash Cell Endurance on Page 4 of this PDF.

Flash is not DRAM, and Flash reads aren't limited, but write/erases are limited to around 100K. Some flash memory systems rotate memory blocks to even out wear, but even without that, you aren't likely to run into wearing out the memory unless you use a flash drive as a RAM substitute.

Apology accepted.

Slight correction: The Flash drive will not fail in your lifetime.

And just because water will become stale it will still freeze and thaw and freeze and thaw and....until the sun explodes. Which will be when your flash drive will stop working.

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With a 100,000 write lifetime for Flash Drives.

If you wrote to the flash drive once per hour 24 hours per day, that is

4166 days. Since there are 365 days per year, that is 11.41 years.

That is well within a normal lifetime for even a Dog. For a human it is a lot less tham my life (I am 67 years).

True, that is not normal use, but you sure can burn one out in a few years of every day use.

How does 11.4 years of unrealistic use (once per hour, 24 hours a day - 24 backups a day to the flash drive, every day of the year? Puleese!) shrink to a "few years" of realistic use (how many times a day do you backup? And if you even approximate the "limit" ... why? ... when it's totally unnecessary).

The change from ridiculously, nearly impossible, use to realistic use, is in the opposite direction; not to a "few years" (*less* than 11.41 years) of use, but to "many many" years (many more than 11.41 years) of use.

Which is about what one would expect for backup files.

Way past the end of your life ... and the life of most backup media.

I think you'll be better off worrying about what others will do with your perfectly good backups 11.42+ years after you die.

Unless someone provides much better, amply supported, evidence; I suggest this is a non-concern for any normal human.