Back up Dialogue Box - Clear Back up File Location drop down menu.

Mattz

Hi
I am a Quicken UK Subscription Windows Version User - Windows 10 Home - Build 19043.1165 - Version 21H1.
I have redundant backup file locations in the file location drop down menu of the back up and restore dialogue box.
I wish to clear the redundant back up locations, so that only the 3 current file back up locations appear in the drop down menu.
Does anyone know how to do this please.

Thanks in advance - Matt Bland in the UK

UKR

How to remove obsolete File or Backup Path entries from Quicken Menus

New with Quicken Subscription (2018+):
When selecting a file name from the bottom of the File Menu and the file cannot be found, you will get prompted for an action or if you want to remove the name from the file list.
All Quicken versions:

You can eliminate incorrect or unused Quicken data file names or Backup Path names if you so desire.

But please be very, very careful when doing it and retain a "before image" backup copy of the .INI file you are about to edit.

Close Quicken.

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

[RecentBackupPaths]
BackupPath5=
BackupPath4=I:\Quicken Backup\
BackupPath3=E:\Quicken Backup\
BackupPath2=J:\Quicken Backup\
BackupPath1=H:\Quicken Backup\

Do NOT delete any lines from this file!

Just blank out the name portion after the '=' (equal sign).

[Recent Files] refers to your current "1=..." data file and 3 previously used ones.

Do not blank out "1=..." or Quicken will not know which file to start with.

[RecentBackupPaths] refers to your Manual Backup file paths, "BackupPath1=..." being the most recently used path name.

Save the changed file.

Start Quicken.

Review the results in the File menu for recent data files and/or the Manual Backup menu for Backup paths.