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Posted by R. C. White on June 6, 2007, 8:46 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi, Bill.
> Please excuse my ignorance. Should the automatic backup folder be
> within the same folder the data files are in? In my case
> "BillActiveDataset"? Bill
See if you have a folder named "BillActiveDatasetBACKUP". The BACKUP name
will be in ALL CAPS. The Quicken default (in WinXP using Q2005) is to put
this at C:Program FilesQuickenBACKUP.
But you might have to wait a week to see it appear. Quicken creates this
folder when it does its first automatic backup, usually 7 days after Quicken
is installed. I'm not sure what the timetable is for creating the BACKUP
folder in a newly-created data folder after Quicken is already up and
running. (While I agree that it is poor programming, I've not moved my main
data fileset - or the BACKUP folder - out of my QuickenW folder, where
Quicken put them by default.)
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)
>
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi, Bill.
>>>>
>>>>I'm glad we could help. In a newsgroup, we all learn one day, then
>>>>teach the next day. For the benefit of others with similar problems
>>>>and questions, could you tell us what you learned about Quicken's
>>>>behavior?
>>>>
>>>>And be sure to mention whether you are using WinXP or Vista or some
>>>>other operating system.
>>>>
>>>>RC
>>>
>>> RC,
>>>
>>> I created a "BillActiveDataset" folder and moved the current working
>>> file into the folder. I opened the new file and it is now my active
>>> file. I don't know if what I did is right but it seems to be working
>>> ok now. Now I have to figure how the automatic backup works and where
>>> it is stored. I'm using Win XP and Quicken 2005. Thanks to all that
>>> responded to my call for help. Bill
>>>
>>In Q2006 (and before), the backups are stored in a folder called backup
>>within the same folder the data files are in.
>>
>>I use Karen's Replicator (freeware) to make automatic backups to an
>>external drive where each night a new directory is created for the backup
>>files, so I have a lot of historical backups. Don't know whether
>>Replicator has been updated for Vista, like Irfanview has. Irfanview is
>>an image viewer and converter <http://www.irfanview.net/> .
>
> Please excuse my ignorance. Should the automatic backup folder be
> within the same folder the data files are in? In my case
> "BillActiveDataset"? Bill
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