-> Stop backing up once and for all? <-

Posted by Dave on February 20, 2008, 7:39 pm

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Steve...

Under the Edit Menu, select Quicken Preferences. Under the Setup
options, highlight the Backup entry.

If you don't want any backups to be made, set the first box called
"Remind after running Quicken" to 0. This should prevent Quicken from
making any backups.

I'd suggest reconsidering your backup methodology if you update
Quicken transactions more often than you run your backup routine. If
you set Quicken (the box mentioned above) to 1, it will make a backup
copy each time you edit Quicken. This will make sure you can always
revert back to the "last known good" file in case you screw something
up. Personally I believe you can never have too many backups.

Hope that helps,

Dave
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Posted by John Pollard on February 20, 2008, 8:41 pm

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Steve JORDI wrote:

> Hi,

> I told Quicken (2008 in my case) NOT to backup files.

I don't think so. I think you told Quicken not to "remind you"
to backup. There is no way - in Quicken - to tell Quicken not
to create any automatic backups.

> But still it does create backups without my consent.

> Any way to stop this stupid thing?

> I have a backup process on my computer that takes care

> of saving those files. But I don't want to back up

> the files I didn't ask for.

I can't think of any good reason for doing this: redundancy is
good, and in this case it is effortless and takes up negligible
disk space.

But, if you're dead set on it, you can prevent Quicken from
making any automatic backups. You have to modify the file,
Quicken.ini; changing the parameter "AutoCopy" (found in the
"[Quicken]" section of the file) to zero.

For Q2008 and Windows XP, Quicken.ini is located in:

Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication
DataIntuitQuickenConfig

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Posted by Steve JORDI on February 25, 2008, 10:09 am

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Hi all,

thanks for your various answers.
Yes, it definitely looks like it's not possible to
avoid those backup files.
Oh well, I'll keep deleting them manually before
synchronizing my various hard drives.

Thanks

Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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Posted by JimH on February 25, 2008, 1:34 pm

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Steve JORDI wrote:

> Hi all,

> thanks for your various answers.

> Yes, it definitely looks like it's not possible to

> avoid those backup files.

> Oh well, I'll keep deleting them manually before

> synchronizing my various hard drives.

> Thanks

> Sincerely,

> Steve JORDI

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It may be possible. At one time it was. There is a "Quicken.ini" file in
"c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication
DataIntuitQuickenConfig". In that file, the line "autocopy=5"
controls how many automatic backups are created. In previous versions,
it was possible to set it to 0 in the file, and that would work. I
haven't tried it since about Q2004 when it did work, so I can't say for
sure if it still does work. I'd also recommend backing up the file
before editing it.

Note that the "AutoBackup=" line controls how often the program prompts
you to do a backup when exiting.

Hope this helps.

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Posted by XS11E on February 25, 2008, 11:41 pm

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> Yes, it definitely looks like it's not possible to

> avoid those backup files.

> Oh well, I'll keep deleting them manually before

> synchronizing my various hard drives.

Unless you're very short of space on your hard drive I can't imagine
why you'd want to delete them? They're not too huge and they might
save you some problems some day.

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