Qwin 2019, File Ops > Copy, unchecking "include attachments" issue
Until last night, I was still on Qwin 2015. In order to solve an issue (very large - 1.17gb - file size), I upgraded to Qwin 2019 (deluxe) to take advantage of the new option to uncheck "include attachments" when doing a file copy.
So after the upgrade was complete I attempted the file copy making sure that box was unchecked. Surprisingly, my attachments were still copied! I did this 2 times and both times attachments were copied. I know this because file size remained within a few bytes of the same size and when I viewed the QDF via 7-zip, the Attach folder was still present.
This morning I decided to give it one more try. So I once again copied my original file and once again attachments were copied despite "include attachments" being unchecked. This time though I opened the new copy and then copied it. This time it worked. My file size went from 1.17gb to 32.6mb. Success!
However...why did it take a double copy procedure to work? And, given that I had to do a double copy procedure, should I be worried about any data integrity?
So to sum up:
Windows 10 (Home, 1803, 17134.523)
Qwin 2015 > Qwin 2019 R17.6
File Operations > Copy > "include attachments" unchecked did not work on a first copy; had to copy the copy to work.
Why?
So after the upgrade was complete I attempted the file copy making sure that box was unchecked. Surprisingly, my attachments were still copied! I did this 2 times and both times attachments were copied. I know this because file size remained within a few bytes of the same size and when I viewed the QDF via 7-zip, the Attach folder was still present.
This morning I decided to give it one more try. So I once again copied my original file and once again attachments were copied despite "include attachments" being unchecked. This time though I opened the new copy and then copied it. This time it worked. My file size went from 1.17gb to 32.6mb. Success!
However...why did it take a double copy procedure to work? And, given that I had to do a double copy procedure, should I be worried about any data integrity?
So to sum up:
Windows 10 (Home, 1803, 17134.523)
Qwin 2015 > Qwin 2019 R17.6
File Operations > Copy > "include attachments" unchecked did not work on a first copy; had to copy the copy to work.
Why?
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It would seem that doing the copy with the "include attachments" unchecked would reduce the file the first time.
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Premier on Windows 10
In the end, I'm ok with having to do the copy twice to get the attachments stripped as long as the resulting data is valid/not corrupt.
Premier on Windows 10
1. Went back to my last Qwin2015 file and let Qwin2019 reconvert it.
2. Made a copy. (File Ops > Copy, did not uncheck any boxes)
3. Validated copy. There were no read errors. There were a couple of damaged transactions. These were from some transactions in accounts dated before 1/1/2004.
4. I deleted these accounts that reported errors during the validation. (They had long since been marked closed.)
5. I re-validated the file. No errors.
6. Made a copy, this time I did UNCHECK the "include attachments" box.
****Once again, Qwin copied the attachments despite the box being unchecked. In spite of the validation having no errors, during the copy I did get a couple of notifications that there was trouble copying an attachment. At the end, the QDF file had the same number of folders and files in the Attach folder as a previous file. So attachments were copied.
7. Ran Copy again, again with include attachments unchecked and this time, it performed as expected, not copying attachments. ie. no Attach folder in the QDF.
So, I'm still having to run Copy twice to get the expected behavior.
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At this point I am going to start using the end result file, the copy of the copy that has the attachments removed. It's only a 31.9mb file vs. a 1.16gb file! Since I've been through validation and all current account balances look right, I'm as confident as I can be that data integrity is OK. So the plan is to roll with it.
Now, why it worked for me and it takes you twice, I can't explain, but in my test, it worked as expected.
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