Save to flash drive

Posted by Stan Baranowski on January 7, 2008, 1:04 pm

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Have Quicken 08. All of a sudden when I try to backup to one of my flash
drives I get a message to select a valid directory. My path is
H:sjb1/7/08. As usual it asks if I want to create that directory, yes, then
I get the message about a valid directory.
Can someone tell what I am doing wrong?

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StanB

Posted by Ken Abrams on January 7, 2008, 1:31 pm

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> My path is

> H:sjb1/7/08.

Guess #1......your flash drive is full or going bad. (Have you LOOKED at a
directory and free space count lately and/or tried to pull something off of
it?)

Guess #2......use a different "path" and/or filename (IIRC, slashes in path
cause trouble)......to repeat: Have you looked at a directory of the flash
drive lately?

And don't ask me why it (seemed) to work in the past. I don't have a guess
for that !! ;-)

Posted by wbertram on January 7, 2008, 3:13 pm

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I don't believe "/" is a valid character for directory/file names. Try
H:sjb1-7-08, or H:sjb010708, etc.

Stan Baranowski wrote:

> Have Quicken 08. All of a sudden when I try to backup to one of my flash

> drives I get a message to select a valid directory. My path is

> H:sjb1/7/08. As usual it asks if I want to create that directory, yes,

> then I get the message about a valid directory.

> Can someone tell what I am doing wrong?

Posted by Stan Baranowski on January 8, 2008, 11:20 am

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Thanks you were right on!!!

>I don't believe "/" is a valid character for directory/file names. Try

>H:sjb1-7-08, or H:sjb010708, etc.

> Stan Baranowski wrote:

>> Have Quicken 08. All of a sudden when I try to backup to one of my flash

>> drives I get a message to select a valid directory. My path is

>> H:sjb1/7/08. As usual it asks if I want to create that directory, yes,

>> then I get the message about a valid directory.

>> Can someone tell what I am doing wrong?

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StanB

Posted by Marty K on January 8, 2008, 11:12 am

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Stan Baranowski wrote:

> Have Quicken 08. All of a sudden when I try to backup to one of my flash

> drives I get a message to select a valid directory. My path is

> H:sjb1/7/08. As usual it asks if I want to create that directory, yes,

> then I get the message about a valid directory.

> Can someone tell what I am doing wrong?

Neither / or are valid characters for file or directory names.