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Posted by Terri on February 8, 2008, 11:27 am
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If I create my own backup folder with 7 subfolders, should I still put that
in D&S/Myname/Mydocs/Quicken/Back up or put it somewhere else to avoid
confusion?
Thanks
> Terri wrote:
>> I have completely messed up my backups. When I go to Quicken (2006
>> Premier) and Open, I see a long list of backups in there. Last year I
>> only saw the main backup and the others were in another folder - how
>> do I correct this and what am I doing wrong? The backups seems to be
>> in Doc& Settings/myname/mydoc/quicken/backup/backup.
>
> One thing you're doing wrong is "open"ing backup files. [This is clear
> because you are seeing backup file names in Quicken's most recently used
> file list, and because you have a "BACKUP" folder within a "BACKUP"
> folder: those folders are created by Quicken, in the folder where the
> current Quicken file is open ... so you had a file open in "BACKUP", then
> Quicken created another BACKUP folder, beneath the first one, for its
> automatic backups.]
>
> If you need to revert to a backup (to replace your current file with a
> backup), you should "restore" the backup.
>
> If you need to view the contents of a backup, you should make a Windows
> "copy" of the backup fileset (there are several files that comprise a
> single Quicken file), and open the copy. I would treat the "copy" as a
> throw away; after you've looked, you can delete it (and the BACKUP folder
> that might get created when you open the copy).
>
> The backup files in the BACKUP folder (the backups created automatically
> by Quicken), are created every seven days or so (depending on how often
> you use Quicken).
>
> You should probably backup every time you use Quicken, though you do not
> necessarily need to put that backup on offline media.
>
> One simple approach to creating a backup everytime you use Quicken is to
> create your own backup folder with seven sub-folders named for each day of
> the week. Just before you exist Quicken, do a backup to the appropriately
> named day-of-the-week folder. Then you will have backups for the last 7
> days of Quicken use, supported by Quicken's weekly automatic backups (I
> keep 5 so am guaranteed at least one month's worth of them.)
>
> You can decide how frequently to make offline backups (which can be done
> outside Quicken); you should need to use those offline backups much less
> frequently than the backups on your hard drive.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
>
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