sub-dir folder - \Backup vs \Backups
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From: ps56k on 10 Jul 2010 22:48 thought I would make a different thread with a proper subject, vs drifting my QFNxxx.TMP thread topic. ---- "dave" <dllapides(a)netscape.net> wrote in message news:517dca6a-4ddd-41d8-b36b- I'm using Q2010 Premier Release R10. Perhaps I have a different setting that causes Quicken to periodically clean them out. My QFN files only go back 2 weeks, to 6-28-2010. In my view, a more signicant issue is that Quicken preserves 2 backup directories. ....\BACKUP appears to contain the backups generated from settings Edit > Preferences > Setup Backup > Automatic Backup the others are found at ....\Backups and appear to be generated every time you run Quicken. ---------- As John has pointed out - we haven't seen this sub-dir name used ? So, this is under the "\Quicken Files\" folder and has the name of "\backups\" ..... with the added "s" ? -- ---------------------------------- "If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." - Steven Wright
From: Laura on 11 Jul 2010 22:00 "ps56k" <pschuman_no_spam_me(a)interserv.com> wrote in message news:i1bbea$9kn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > thought I would make a different thread with a proper subject, > vs drifting my QFNxxx.TMP thread topic. > ---- > > "dave" <dllapides(a)netscape.net> wrote in message > news:517dca6a-4ddd-41d8-b36b- > I'm using Q2010 Premier Release R10. > Perhaps I have a different setting that causes Quicken to > periodically clean them out. My QFN files only go back 2 weeks, to > 6-28-2010. > > In my view, a more signicant issue is that Quicken preserves 2 backup > directories. > > ...\BACKUP appears to contain the backups generated from settings > Edit > Preferences > Setup Backup > Automatic Backup > > the others are found at > > ...\Backups and appear to be generated every time you run Quicken. > > ---------- > As John has pointed out - we haven't seen this sub-dir name used ? > So, this is under the "\Quicken Files\" folder > and has the name of "\backups\" ..... with the added "s" ? I only have 1 backup folder and it is called BACKUP. Mine is located under the Quicken folder in My Documents. I'm using 2008 H&B at the moment but this naming convension on this computer started with 2004. Both my manual and automatic backups go to this single folder. Did you ever manually do a backup (File>>Backup) and change the default folder name?
From: dave on 11 Jul 2010 23:59 I did a little exploring. My Q2010 file organization goes back many years, probably to a Quicken for DOS version. Back then, the software resided at C:\QUICKEN, and so I created a data subdirectory C:\QUICKEN\WORK. Over the years, the software moved to C:\Program Files\Quicken, leaving just my data files in \WORK, and somewhen I discovered lower case, so the data was saved to C:\QuickenW\Work. Which is where it resides today. \Work grew subdirectories, \Q04Files and \Q07Files as I upgraded, and the dreaded \VALIDATE. Looking at preferences (which I cannot recall changing in years), I see that -- My automatic backups are set to run every 5th use of Quicken, and to save 5 backups. Quicken does not provide any choice of names for this subdirectory. In my case, they are saved in my C:\QuickenW\Work \BACKUP subdirectory. The files are named using my Quicken file name + date + time, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.PM11.12.QDF-backup. I have 5 such files. My manual backups are set to run every 3rd use. Quicken offers a choice of whether and where these are saved. In my case, they are saved to my C:\QuickenW\Work\Backups subdirectory.The files are named using my Quicken file name + date, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.QDF- backup. I have lots (some 80+ going back to my installation of Q2010, plus 1 holdover from Q2007). The 10 GB of files I deleted must have been 3 years worth generated by Q2007. Did I select the "Backups" subdirectory at some point? Probably, though I cannot recall doing so. That would explain others not finding such subdirectory on their systems. thanx
From: ps56k on 12 Jul 2010 00:19 "dave" <dllapides(a)netscape.net> wrote in message news:bd68140c-e2f5-4da0-a901-ef95a2758578(a)i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... >I did a little exploring. > > My Q2010 file organization goes back many years, probably to a Quicken > for DOS version. > > Back then, the software resided at C:\QUICKEN, and so I created a data > subdirectory C:\QUICKEN\WORK. > > Over the years, the software moved to C:\Program Files\Quicken, > leaving just my data files in \WORK, and somewhen I discovered lower > case, so the data was saved to C:\QuickenW\Work. Which is where it > resides today. > > \Work grew subdirectories, \Q04Files and \Q07Files as I upgraded, and > the dreaded \VALIDATE. > > Looking at preferences (which I cannot recall changing in years), I > see that -- > > My automatic backups are set to run every 5th use of Quicken, and to > save 5 backups. Quicken does not provide any choice of names for this > subdirectory. In my case, they are saved in my C:\QuickenW\Work > \BACKUP subdirectory. The files are named using my Quicken file name > + date + time, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.PM11.12.QDF-backup. I have > 5 such files. > > My manual backups are set to run every 3rd use. Quicken offers a > choice of whether and where these are saved. In my case, they are > saved to my C:\QuickenW\Work\Backups subdirectory.The files are named > using my Quicken file name + date, thus -- XXXXXX-2010-07-11.QDF- > backup. I have lots (some 80+ going back to my installation of Q2010, > plus 1 holdover from Q2007). > > The 10 GB of files I deleted must have been 3 years worth generated > by Q2007. > > Did I select the "Backups" subdirectory at some point? Probably, > though I cannot recall doing so. That would explain others not finding > such subdirectory on their systems. > if you do a search for the file - quicken.ini - you'll probably find a couple versions.... on XP... one default for All Users and also one for each specific User. open with notepad - and you'll see the entries for the Backup path - I just deleted mine to see what the Backup screen would default to and my Q2009 came up with - A:\ SO... not sure what the original manual Backup default would show... For me, my manual backup was \quicken files\backup2x as in twice
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