Need help scheduling transactions

Posted by John Pollard on December 1, 2008, 10:11 pm

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Ron M wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:39:37 GMT, "John Pollard" wrote:

>> [Did you install Quicken on your C: drive? And your Quicken

>> data was/is on what drive?]

> Yes, Quicken is installed on my C: drive and the data is/was

> on a

> thumb drive, G:

> Does this cause problems?

As far as I know: Only if you remove the drive and that removal
interrupts a write to the drive. Quicken writes to disk every
time you press Enter, so if the os isn't caching those writes,
you should be ok. But it probably doesn't hurt to insure that
nothing could possibly be trying to write to a removable drive
before you remove it.

>> I can only think of two possibilities: corrupted data, or

>> corrupted installation.

>> For corrupted data: make a Quicken Copy of your Quicken data,

>> then Validate the Copy. If the problem no longer exists in

>> the

>> Validated Copy, make the Validated Copy your regular file.

> The problem was corrupted data . . .

> thank you very much for pointing me to the solution.

You're welcome; glad you got it working.

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Posted by R. C. White on December 1, 2008, 10:19 pm

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Hi, Ron.

> Yes, Quicken is installed on my C: drive and the data is/was on a

> thumb drive, G: Does this cause problems?

It should NOT cause any problems. Unless, of course, you pull the thumb
drive before Quicken finishes writing data to it. That's the reason for my
previous suggestion: Use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to set the Policies
on that thumb drive to Optimize for quick removal.

Remember, though, that Quicken automatically puts its BACKUP folder as a
subfolder under your main data folder. So if your main Quicken file is
G:QuickenDataRon.QDF, you will have 5 (by default) sets of data as
G:QuickenDataBACKUPRon1.QDF through Ron5.QDF. If that's a small thumb
drive and your database is large, you might not have enough space for six
sets of your data. You might also have other backups, but those 5 automatic
ones will always be in the BACKUP subfolder, along with the current working
copy of your data in the QuickenData folder.

You might want to keep the working copy of your database (along with the 5
automatic backups) on your hard drive, and then keep at least one full
backup on the thumb drive. Then you can unplug the thumb drive and store it
away from the computer, for safety. Thumb drives are cheap enough that you
might want to have more than one of them so that you can store multiple
backups in different locations.

WHY do you have your data on the thumb drive? If it is for protection
against loss of the backup, then my previous paragraph applies. But if you
want to keep your data hidden from other users of your computer, then a
different strategy might be needed.

RC
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(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
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> wrote:

>>[Did you install Quicken on your C: drive? And your Quicken

>>data was/is on what drive?]

> Yes, Quicken is installed on my C: drive and the data is/was on a

> thumb drive, G: Does this cause problems?

>>I can only think of two possibilities: corrupted data, or

>>corrupted installation.

>>For corrupted data: make a Quicken Copy of your Quicken data,

>>then Validate the Copy. If the problem no longer exists in the

>>Validated Copy, make the Validated Copy your regular file.

> The problem was corrupted data . . . thank you very much for

> pointing me to the solution.

> Ron