backing up one account of several

Posted by John Pollard on January 2, 2007, 4:11 pm

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Barbara Lamb wrote:

> I did a practice delete account on my quicken and then

> went to restore. It worked smoothly.

> What is so VERY

> confusing is taht all the b/u's or copys *appear* the

> same. the icons, the file names, etc. The only way I

> could distinguish one from the other was by where I *Put*

> it on my HD

Actually I consider that a good way to keep track of my backups.

I have a Quicken backup folder for each day of the week; and a
Quicken backup folder for each month of the year ... both sets
named accordingly. Since Quicken makes its own backups
automatically once every 7 days or so (look in the folder named
BACKUP in the folder where your Quicken data is), I have very
good backup coverage, and I know just where everything is.

If you need specifics about when the backup was created, you can
use Windows Explorer to search for all files with the ".qdf"
extension (the main Quicken data file); then sort the results on
date modified.

Alternatively, since you'll have Q2006, you can tell Quicken to
put the backup date in the name of the backup file. If you want
to restore from one of those backups, you'll probably have to do
a little manipulating though or your Quicken data name will
change.

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