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Allow networked quicken file warning to be disabled permanently
Stempy
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Recently a warning was added to Quicken that reads as follows:
"Quicken has detected that you are accessing your date [sic] file remotely through DropBox, cloud storage, Google Drive, USB, or another remote source. To avoid possible damage to your data, we recommend that you move your data file to a drove on the same computer as your Quicken application.
Select "Close File" to close the file. Once file is closed, move your data to a local drive. Select Continue if you want to keep accessing the data file remotely."
This warning may be appropriate in some, or even many cases. But you have many users who have been running their Quicken files from local networked storage without issues for decades, including me. For these users, we would appreciate the ability to disable this warning permanently.
"Quicken has detected that you are accessing your date [sic] file remotely through DropBox, cloud storage, Google Drive, USB, or another remote source. To avoid possible damage to your data, we recommend that you move your data file to a drove on the same computer as your Quicken application.
Select "Close File" to close the file. Once file is closed, move your data to a local drive. Select Continue if you want to keep accessing the data file remotely."
This warning may be appropriate in some, or even many cases. But you have many users who have been running their Quicken files from local networked storage without issues for decades, including me. For these users, we would appreciate the ability to disable this warning permanently.
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"Quicken has detected that you are accessing your data file remotely through DropBox, ...... or another remote source. To avoid possible damage to your data, we recommend you move your data file to a drive on the same computer as your Quicken application"
My active data file is indeed on the same drive as the application. If I click through to "continue" I'm able to open the file. But the warning message comes up every time I try to open a file.
The only change I've made is the recent upgrade.
(I does say date file not data file)
It allows you to continue, but it is annoying.
Is there any way to suppress the warning? Is there a push to completely disallow quicken files on cloud storage, USB or any remote source?
The USB limit is an interesting one because it would look like a local disk not a remote source.
My quicken data resides on a local file server which has a significant amount of redundancy, backups, and checks, I feel it is safer on there than on a local SSD disk.
An interesting side note for you technical people out there, I was did not get an error when using an iSCSI target, it does see those as local disks as well.
My data file resides on a NAS. I know the risks, I know the ways to mitigate those, I sometimes do have to restore from backup, but I am aware of all that and it is the best configuration for our setup. The files are backed up numerous places, both on the network and periodically on a USB stick.
Further, Quicken does not allow two computers to access the data file at once, something their admonishments do not seem to realize. I get an error banner if I try to open the data file while my wife has it open.
My primary computer is a laptop that I travel with. I do not want the data file traveling with me. Not only would that mean my wife could not access it, it creates more of a security risk than the risk of corruption by the data residing on our NAS.
I don't need Quicken scolding me every time I open the program that my configuration is one they don't recommend. If I wanted their recommendation on the subject, I would ask them.
And for the record, if several different computers may access Quicken, and each has its own data file, the chances of something getting screwed up are far more likely than data file corruption. The files may stay in tact, but the accuracy of the data they contain will eventually deviate. Not a great situation for financial software.
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I have been running Quicken with the data file on a NAS ever since I've had one. Before that, the Quicken file lived on one of our desktop machines and we accessed it from the other. In all of this time, Quicken has ALWAYS been able to detect when the file is open on another computer, so I don't understand why some keep making the argument that it can't tell. I have never had any issues with network failures messing up the database. This may be because all my connections are wired.
l have considered iSCSI (and tried it with a LightRoom database), but it was more prone to disaster than this is.
The main point is - give me the option to accept the risk.
Same Problem
Still we pay a subscription now, and removing the ability to put it on remote storage just adds another reason for me to seek alternatives.
Is there no one working on UX for this application? At the very least a "Don't remind me again" option would have been a no brainer when rolling this out. C'mon!
Please, please, please allow us to get rid of this nagging message each time we go into our favorite financial management program.
Concept / concern is well-founded, but your not considering that IT techies like me can make it appear to Quicken that I'm using data remotely when--in fact--it's all very much local.
Why wouldn't you give users an option to disable that warning? Are you my big brother???? (I can live with that if I get my cut of the family business!)
Thanks!
I get it, there probably have been support incidents with people using remote Quicken files. But I keep all my important files stored on a local server. Not the PC I am using.
I have read the warning that pops up every time Quicken starts since the latest update. Which then requires I click Continue before the program opens. I understand the risks and accept responsibility for having my file on a local server.
Now give me the ability to permanently dismiss it. If it continues to pop up every time I start the program, I won't be using Quicken for much longer.
Thanks.
"Quicken has detected that you are accessing your data fil remotely through Dropbox, cloud storage, Google Drive, USB, or another remote source. To avoid possible damage to your data, we recommend that you move your data fil to a drive on the same computer as your Quicken application.
Select "Close File" to close the file. Once fil eis closed, move your data fil to a local drive. Select Continue if you want to keep accessing the data fil remotely."
Has something changed that makes accessing remotely more of a problem? Is there a way to get this pop up to disappear and stop coming up every login? Clicking continue just gets rid of it until Quicken is re-opened.
Thanks!
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> I am in full agreement with how annoying the message is and am glad it will be fixed. However, going one step further, how would the makers of Quicken prefer the data file be stored when multiple computers are accessing the data? (one at a time) My wife and I each use our own desktop to access the data file which is stored on a Windows server. The server disk is a RAID 5; it resides on two additional servers thru DSF; resides on the external backup drive; and has multiple versions stored in previous versions. This is much safer than the data file being on a local disk.
Your configuration is not unlike ours, just substitute NAS for Windows server and RAID 1 for RAID 5. I have two NASes, and the file is backed up from one to the other daily, and also synced to one of the desktops. Both NASes are RAID1. It gets backed up from the desktop on a daily basis to an external drive and on a weekly basis to a USB thumb drive. The program backs up the data file every time it closes, and those back ups go through a similar sync and backup process as the data file.
My wife and I both work at home in different businesses, and the Quicken files are not the only files that get that level of redundancy and backup. I won't even go into the network and system security we have. The whole thing makes the IT support at the company I work for drool.
> HEY FOLKS. You have to vote by clicking on the triangle in the blue box at the bottom of the original post, making a comment does not count as a vote.
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I assume that the VOTE option is now closed? I am unable to upvote this, and the status in the original blue box now says 'Planned'. If so, I hope the update comes soon !!!
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