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Posted by SP on August 9, 2006, 12:01 pm
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In the 2006 version of Quicken Deluxe that I'm using I have the "Maximum
number of backup copies" set to 3. This feature has never worked for me in
this version of Quicken. Is this feature broken or am I overlooking
something?
Thanks, Steve
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Posted by Margaret Wilson on August 9, 2006, 4:09 pm
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SP wrote:
> In the 2006 version of Quicken Deluxe that I'm using I have the "Maximum
> number of backup copies" set to 3. This feature has never worked for me in
> this version of Quicken. Is this feature broken or am I overlooking
> something?
I was using QP2006 till I upgraded to QP2007 I few days ago. To my
recollection, Quicken's auto backups have always worked fine for me.
IIRC, the default is five. In QP2006, I had mine set to 7, however, and
that was working just fine. I did notice after I upgraded to QP2007,
that the auto backup settings returned to 5 for some reason, so I
changed it to 7, and it seems to be creating the extra backups without
problems. I don't know if this will help or not, but I've found that
sometimes turning a misbehaving feature off and back on fixes the
problem. Try setting your auto backups to 0, then exit Quicken. (I
always use the manual Q backup feature before exiting.) Then fire up
Quicken again and set auto backups back to 3. Hopefully that will
jumpstart your auto backups. :-) Another thought is to increase the
number to something greater than the default and see if that makes a
difference. Once you get it working, then you can set it back to 3.
Sometimes I've had to wait a few days to see the results of a change
like this. Anyway, hope this helps.
Regards,
Margaret
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Posted by DP on August 9, 2006, 9:42 pm
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> In the 2006 version of Quicken Deluxe that I'm using I have the "Maximum
> number of backup copies" set to 3. This feature has never worked for me in
> this version of Quicken. Is this feature broken or am I overlooking
> something?
When you say it "has never worked," what do you mean?
Is it not doing any auto backups? Is it doing more than three?
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Posted by SP on August 9, 2006, 10:18 pm
Please log in for more thread options It does auto backups but doesn't limit the number to 3. Every couple of
months I have been deleting the files in the folder that I backup to.
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>> In the 2006 version of Quicken Deluxe that I'm using I have the "Maximum
>> number of backup copies" set to 3. This feature has never worked for me
>> in this version of Quicken. Is this feature broken or am I overlooking
>> something?
>
> When you say it "has never worked," what do you mean?
> Is it not doing any auto backups? Is it doing more than three?
>
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Posted by DP on August 9, 2006, 11:46 pm
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> It does auto backups but doesn't limit the number to 3. Every couple of
> months I have been deleting the files in the folder that I backup to.
>
I don't know how knowledgeable you are about Quicken, so excuse me if I ask
what will seem like very simple questions if you are already pretty
knowledgeable.
1) You do realize that a working "file" for quicken actually consists of
several files, don't you? There will be at least three files per backup,
probably more. So if you have three backups, you will have at least nine
files in the backup folder.
2) When you talk about "the folder that I backup to," you are referring to
the backups that Quicken does on its own, right? These are backups that
occur when you exit quicken. There is no prompt for these and there is no
request for a location.
Thsee autmated backups are the ones that should be limited to three.
Now, if you're talking about backups that are done when Quicken asks you if
you want to back up the files and where to back them up -- that's a
different animal from the automatic backups. You can have as many of those
backup files as you want, as long as you change the file name to avoid
duplicates.
If you are filing your "manual" backups in the same folder as your auto
backups, then that would account for why you have more than three.
You may already be aware of all of these things I'm telling you. If you're
not, it's likely that the problems you're seeing may be the result of slight
confusion on your part.
Keep us up to date and we'll continue to try to sort through this.
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