Keeping Quicken data file on the cloud?
I have searched and found older answers about storing the Quicken Data File on the cloud. I am wondering if this still is not do-able. I am the one who does most of the entries in Quicken. My boss would like to be able to open Quicken and have it automatically be the "current version" without having to Restore from a back up. He doesn't want to access from the online app. He seems to think it is possible. (He was thinking Google Drive)
We just purchased Windows 10, Quicken 2019 Home & Business.
It seems that I have read that some people still do it. What is the danger in doing it, if it is something you are "not supposed to do"?
I would like to be able to explain to him why it is not recommended, and may not be the same as documents on the cloud.
Thanks so much.
We just purchased Windows 10, Quicken 2019 Home & Business.
It seems that I have read that some people still do it. What is the danger in doing it, if it is something you are "not supposed to do"?
I would like to be able to explain to him why it is not recommended, and may not be the same as documents on the cloud.
Thanks so much.
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After you make changes or at the end of the day when you normally make your backup, you could copy the data file to a shared folder. Then, when the boss wants to look in Quicken, they would copy the data file from the shared folder to their local harddrive, overwriting the existing data file and then start Quicken, since the file's name never changes, Quicken will find it and open it.
This makes your copy of the data file the official version and everything else is just copies.
Now, if the boss is the type to want make changes and fiddle around in it, you are out of luck.
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How is synching to Quicken on the web any different? (They will ask me) Is it because it doesn't sync anything instantly?
Maybe I should start a new topic, but it doesn't seem that Quicken on the web has all the functionality of Desktop Quicken. Correct? For example I couldn't access Quicken on the web from home to do a reconciliation of a bank statement, correct? (I didn't see that option). Or I couldn't print a check from home using the app on my computer in a browser?
Thanks
All the heavy weightlifting can only be done on the desktop; reports, check printing, reconciliation, etc.
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Q expects that it's data file is local, on the hard drive of your computer. As such, Q lacks such database networking features as "Record Lock", "Commit" and "Rollback". Without those, a single hiccup, during a Write operation, in the connection between Q and the Q data file in the cloud (the same applies if it were on a network drive) would TOAST your data file ... perhaps irreparably.
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The 3 computers using Quicken are myself and my 2 bosses. My Quicken data file just has 2 companies that I am involved in. Their Quicken data files have other accounts that are individual to them, and I don't have access to them. (Nor do they have access to each others individual ones). One of the bosses likes to sync his individual ones. However, since we made this upgrade, and all are under one Quicken ID, it would seem that I now would be able to see their accounts on the web/app version.
I figure it can't hurt to ask if there is any way that it could be made so that I wouldn't be able to see their info. (And each of them not see each others personal accounts)
To me, it would seem that there should be some way to password protect their individual data files on the mobile/web version.
I'm thinking there probably isn't a way, but maybe someone has some "trick" that isn't obvious?
Thanks again for the help provided here.
The only way around this would be to buy three licenses and no one knows the other's password to the Quicken.com Account.
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