Wrong Backup File Opens After Update

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This discussion was created from comments split from: my quicken data reverted to an old one after signing in.

bvillani

:( When automatic updates arrive, a previous backup is brought up which does not include Bill Pay Manager. I have to pull the most recent backup that includes previous Bill Manager setup. It happens every time I allow Quicken to update. Any thoughts? Thank you.

UKR

How, exactly, are you starting Quicken?
By using the Q program icon on the Desktop or Start Menu?

Or by double-clicking a Quicken data file by name from Windows File Explorer or a Desktop icon representing a file and not the program?

Have you ever customized the Q program icon to point to a specific file or folder other than the one that you now wish to use?

It appears to me as if you're always overriding a memorized default file name and thus and old file is selected.

Edit with Notepad or any other ASCII text editor the file
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Quicken\config\QUSER.INI"
or "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Intuit\Quicken\config\QUSER.INI" for older Quicken versions. Replace "username" in the path with your Windows account name.

In this file you will find lines looking similar to these:

[RecentFiles]
1=C:\Users\username\Documents\Quicken\test
2=C:\Users\username\Documents\Quicken\UKR
3=C:\Users\username\Documents\Quicken\UKR2005-2006
4=C:\Users\username\Documents\Quicken\Ukr2004

The file numbered "1=" is the one which Quicken will start with by default, when started from the program icon. Is this the correct one? Or should there be another one in its place?