Questions about making a file copy in R34.16 [edited]

fggates

I updated my Quicken Premier to R34.16 this week. Now the File|Copy utility is missing necessary behaviors.

Rationale:
I have a 375MB Quicken file dating back 23 years. It is very very valuable to me. I take a backup every day and each weekend I take a File|Copy. I take a File|Copy since it consolidates the QDF file (removes deleted transactions, reoorders the database, other tidying tasks - it doesn't just make a file copy of the QDF byte-for-byte).

Three times during my Quicken career I have suffered a corrupted datafile which does not manifest until I take the weekly copy. Then the File|Copy option reported a database corruption and an inability to make a copy. I then have to laboriously re-enter the week's data onto the previous week's copy and copy that. The Validate and Super-Validate options *do not* detect those database errors when they occur. The only time they show up is in the record-by-record meticulous File|Copy operation which also consolidates and resequences the QDF.

SO: taking a weekly File|Copy is a vital and necessary part of my backup regimen that has saved my QDF file three times. Without it I would have lost months, perhaps even years of data without realizing it. In my cases the corruption was detected by File|Copy but manifested as a silent corruption of payee names, payee values, and odd-charactered unrecognized categories in random registers in transactions that were undeletable.

Now in 34.16:
The menus have been reorganized - fine - but the dialog which I recognize as the old File|Copy now deliberately disconnects the file from my online sources. I would need to re-enter all my passwords and associate all my accounts to Quicken accounts again. That is some 30+ accounts across 12 financial institutions. I do not - cannot - be doing that every week.

Request:
Where is the old File|Copy menu option which consolidates, defrags, and repacks the QDF datafile but also retains all the online account associations and passwords? Is there a simultaneous button press combination similar to Super-Validate which I must use?

Suggestion:
Restore the earlier File|Copy behaviors. Taking a copy/consolidation of the QDF file is a necessary and vital part of any user's backup plan. A simple Windows copy file does not do the same consolidation and does not detect the database corruptions that the record-by-record File|Copy behavior does.

Thank you.

- Frank

Sherlock

Contrary to the title you chose for this discussion, you are able to make a file copy.  You just don't want to have to manually reestablish the Online Services if you choose to use the copied file instead of the original file.

Note: You may still use the file copy to attempt to detect the type of corruption you have managed to trigger in your Quicken file three times, but, by proceeding with the original file, you're losing is impact the copy file may have on the Quicken file which is potentially some compaction and some repair if there is space to be had and if there is a corruption the copy file may correct. 

In my opinion, a better suggestion would be for the Validate and Repair functionality to be able to perform copy file's compaction and repair.