When I backup I get three different files listed in the folder. FXLOG, SyncLog and the QDFdata

Michael Yaccino III

The FIle type for the 2 unexpected files is Windows Media Player. so What gives?

Sherlock

The only file produced by a Quicken Backup usually has the .QDF-backup extension.  The files you appear to be referencing appear in the folder that contains the Quicken data file (.QDF) and may be the two data file specific log files (Cloud Sync and OFX) with the .DAT extension accessible from within Quicken by selecting Help > Log Files

Greg_the_Geek

And it sounds like the .DAT extension got associated with the Windows Media Player. Also, you should backup to an external device. If your hard drive crashes, you'll loose your Quicken file as well as backups.

Greg_the_Geek

What is the full path to the backup folder?

Michael Yaccino III

C:\Users\Michael Yaccino lll\Desktop\QUICKEN-Home Accounts 2019\QUICKEN-Home Accounts 2019-2019-12-16.QDF-backup

Sherlock

The only file produced by a Quicken Backup usually has the .QDF-backup extension.  The files you appear to be referencing appear in the folder that contains the Quicken data file (.QDF) and may be the two data file specific log files (Cloud Sync and OFX) with the .DAT extension accessible from within Quicken by selecting Help > Log Files

Greg_the_Geek

And it sounds like the .DAT extension got associated with the Windows Media Player. Also, you should backup to an external device. If your hard drive crashes, you'll loose your Quicken file as well as backups.

Michael Yaccino III

Thanks. The computer hard drive is backed up to a cloud service that works cause it has happened to me in the past.

UKR

Michael Yaccino III said:

Thanks. The computer hard drive is backed up to a cloud service that works cause it has happened to me in the past.

Nevertheless, I recommend you change your Manual Backup destination folder and point it to somewhere other than your internal hard drive.

Do be sure to have your backups set up properly in Quicken, both the Automatic Backups and the Manual Backups. You can find the settings in Edit / Preferences / Backup.  Don't rely on the installation defaults. That might not be sufficient.
Write the Manual Backups to an external USB-stick or USB hard drive every 1 time you close Quicken. Use the "Add a date stamp to file name" option so that you have multiple backup files (not just one file that gets replaced every time).
Also enable and set your Automatic backups to create a backup "every 1 time Quicken closes". Retain 10 copies.
One can never have enough backups … trust me! BTDTGTS!