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Backup Sets Phil 02-13-2008
Posted by Phil on February 13, 2008, 5:11 pm
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 My neighbor's quicken backup sets have many dates next to the file name.
How can we delete all the dates/

Phil B.





Posted by wbertram on February 13, 2008, 5:31 pm
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 Why would you want to?

Phil wrote:
> My neighbor's quicken backup sets have many dates next to the file name.
> How can we delete all the dates/
>
> Phil B.
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Posted by John Pollard on February 13, 2008, 5:57 pm
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Phil wrote:
> My neighbor's quicken backup sets have many dates next to the
> file
> name. How can we delete all the dates?

It sounds like your neighbor has been opening backup files.

Newer versions of Quicken offer an option to have Quicken append
the current date to the name of the backup file the user
creates. If the user then opens that backup file, and creates
another backup, a second date will be appended to the file name.
Etc.

You should not "open" backup files ... much less use them as
your regular data file.

If you need to view the contents of a backup file, use Windows
Explorer to make a Copy of the files in your Quicken fileset
(QDATA.*), and open/view in the Copy.

If you need to replace your current file with a backup, you
should "restore" the backup.

If you want to remove the date(s) from a (backup) file, use
Quicken's "rename" feature. File > File Operations > Rename.

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John Pollard
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Posted by Phil on February 13, 2008, 8:48 pm
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John,

Thanks for the info.
Where does Quicken 2007 usually save the current QData Set?

Phil
> Phil wrote:
>> My neighbor's quicken backup sets have many dates next to the file
>> name. How can we delete all the dates?
>
> It sounds like your neighbor has been opening backup files.
>
> Newer versions of Quicken offer an option to have Quicken append the
> current date to the name of the backup file the user creates. If the user
> then opens that backup file, and creates another backup, a second date
> will be appended to the file name. Etc.
>
> You should not "open" backup files ... much less use them as your regular
> data file.
>
> If you need to view the contents of a backup file, use Windows Explorer to
> make a Copy of the files in your Quicken fileset (QDATA.*), and open/view
> in the Copy.
>
> If you need to replace your current file with a backup, you should
> "restore" the backup.
>
> If you want to remove the date(s) from a (backup) file, use Quicken's
> "rename" feature. File > File Operations > Rename.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
>



Posted by Han on February 13, 2008, 9:16 pm
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@corp.supernews.com:

> John,
>
> Thanks for the info.
> Where does Quicken 2007 usually save the current QData Set?
>
> Phil
>
Quicken saves the data at the last place it was read from. Also, that
file set is automatically opened if you open Quicken. Under the File
menu are listed the last 4 different file sets opened, in the order of
last opened file set first, least recently opened file set fourth. If
you opened the last file set 15 times, but no other file set during that
time, the file set opened 16 times ago is listed as second (but only if
different from the last 15), etc.

To make sure you open a specific file set, make a shortcut to the qdf
file of that file set, and open that qdf file. Quicken will launch and
open the whole file set. You can make different shortcuts to different
file sets. My data, Mom data, Boy Scout data, etc.

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Best regards
Han
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