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Backups to Dropbox?

WHY does Quicken offer Dropbox backups when Quicken states "Quicken is not designed to be used over a network or shared drive (such as OneDrive or Google Drive). While you can back up data files to a network, you should not open or run Quicken on a network. Ensure Quicken is installed on your computer's hard drive." Do I then have to make two separate backups? One for my hard drive and one for Dropbox?
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splasher SuperUser ✭✭✭✭
Quicken advises against having your Quicken DATA file (not the backups) on a network or cloud drive.Putting your backups on a network, cloud or Dropbox is perfectly acceptable.There is nothing inconsistent in this guidance.-splasher using Q since 1996 - Subscription - Win10
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jrich75 Member ✭✭✭✭
herbepa1 said:Do I then have to make two separate backups? One for my hard drive and one for Dropbox?Quicken user since 1995
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splasher SuperUser ✭✭✭✭
herbepa1 said:Thanks very much. I see that my DATA files are located on my desktop instead of the default Documents/Quicken folder. Would you recommend moving the QDATA.QDF, QDATAOFXLOG.DAT and qdata_synclog.dat to the Documents/Quicken folder?
Once moved, double click on the file to start Quicken with that file, after that, it should find it on its own. You can click on the original location in the Quicken File menu recent file list and since Quicken can't find it, it will offer to remove it from the recent file list.
-splasher using Q since 1996 - Subscription - Win10
-also older versions as needed for testing
-Questions? Check out the Quicken Windows FAQ list1 -
Chris_QPW Member ✭✭✭✭
BTW just in case you don't know it, there is a setting in the preferences under Backup for saving the automatic backups to whatever folder you like. And of course you can do your manual backups where you like too.(I'm using the latest Quicken subscription version)1
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-also older versions as needed for testing
-Questions? Check out the Quicken Windows FAQ list
Win10 Deluxe Subscription thru 2021
Once moved, double click on the file to start Quicken with that file, after that, it should find it on its own. You can click on the original location in the Quicken File menu recent file list and since Quicken can't find it, it will offer to remove it from the recent file list.
-also older versions as needed for testing
-Questions? Check out the Quicken Windows FAQ list