My Mac is running out of storage capability. The old Quicken backups seem to be the culprit.
Joeydun
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Is there any reason to keep the Backup files on my computer if I have the data files saved on an external hard drive? Can I delete them all from my computer?
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Quicken 2016 doesn't have automated backups, so your lack of space isn't from them.
Perhaps you are manually creating backups, but you would have to be consciously creating them.
Quite honestly, Quicken files are pretty small in terms of storage space-akin to trimming a few blades of grass from a football field. I suspect your problem lies with 1) something else taking up the space, 2) some automated utility taking up the space, 3) confusion about what storage space is "running out", etc.5
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Hello Joeydun. Appreciate your question.
If you have multiple versions of Quicken, you can remove any earlier version from your computer that you are using. If, after doing this you are still having issues with your disk space, you could move your backups to an external hard drive, but we recommend keeping the original Quicken file in which you are using on your main drive for quick access of your data.
Hope this information is helpful.
Respectfully,
~ Quicken Harold.Quicken Harold
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@Joeydun I first want to make sure I understand what you're saying you have. You said you have "the data files saved on an external hard drive", so I want to make sure we know what data files you're referring to. Are you referring to an external Time Machine drive which contains copies of your data files? Or are you saying that you have multiple Quicken data files on an external drive, but Quicken's automated backups are being stored on your Mac's hard drive? How big are these data files?
Typically, Quicken keeps only a limited number of backup files, unless you've set it to keep more. In Preferences, what is your setting for backups?
Is it set to "All files" or something less?
There should be no reason to keep a massive number of Quicken backups. If you have is set to back up every time you quit, and to keep them all, you definitely should be able to weed out a lot of them. But I don't recommend deleting all your older backups, or setting the number of backups to be very low, because sometimes when you discover a problem, it's been present for a while and it can help if you can go back a week, month or more to an older data file.
So if you do have many dozens of backup files, I'd suggest deleting many of them but keeping one or two per month for as far back as your history goes.
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We might be getting somewhere. I can't locate the preference you showed above.
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macOS menu bar: Quicken menu > Preferences > General tab, then look near the bottom.
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I have Quicken 2016. My preferences don't look like this.0
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Quicken 2016 doesn't have automated backups, so your lack of space isn't from them.
Perhaps you are manually creating backups, but you would have to be consciously creating them.
Quite honestly, Quicken files are pretty small in terms of storage space-akin to trimming a few blades of grass from a football field. I suspect your problem lies with 1) something else taking up the space, 2) some automated utility taking up the space, 3) confusion about what storage space is "running out", etc.5
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