Reduce Size of QDF File

Henry112

Any ideas/suggestions on how to reduce the size of my quicken file (152,000KB) I create a new file each year and so i only have banking info from mid Dec. But i think its the investments that are making it so large. Trouble is i don't want to do anything that will mess up my price history and valuation.

Frankx

Hi @Henry112 ,

You may want to look at the information on file size located at this LINK.  Generally the file size itself (ie. KB's) is not a problem for Quicken.  And while you may decide to limit the number of years of data you maintain in the datafile, limitations with respect to transactions, saved reports/graphs are only limited by the size of your hard drive.

Let me know if you have any followups.

Frankx

Chris_QPW

Are you including attachments?
That is what usually causes data files to be really big quickly.

If it really is the investment transactions you must have a massive amount of them.
If you have a ton of securities and are getting prices for them all that can increase it pretty quickly too.

Ps56k2

Henry112 said:

Any ideas/suggestions on how to reduce the size of my quicken file (152,000KB) I create a new file each year and so i only have banking info from mid Dec. But i think its the investments that are making it so large. Trouble is i don't want to do anything that will mess up my price history and valuation.

Not sure why people want to trim the size of their QDF file - it really doesn't matter....
And it's nice to have all your historical data in one place.  Our file is 165k and has all my financial data since.. forever.

Here is our file stats..... CTRL+About Quicken

Chris_QPW

Note the reason I think that @Henry112's data file is large is because it is 152MB, but has less than a year's worth of data in it.  Mine is 146MB with data going back to 1996 (no attachments).