What is this VALIDATE Directory

Question

I have a sub directory labeled VALIDATE under my main Quicken directory.  Under it are several of my old and my current QDF files.   Are these something left over from running a validate and are they of any use or can they be deleted?  I just trying to clean up stuff I don't need.  Below is Quicken directory.

This is what is under directory VALIDATE

Sherlock · Accepted Answer

Before Quicken attempts to Validate and Repair, Quicken saves a copy of the Quicken file to the VALIDATE folder in the folder that contains the Quicken file.

Chris_QPW · Accepted Answer

General observation.  The only reason you have more than one data file saved in the Validate folder is because you keep changing your data file name.  Validate doesn't do any name changing, it simply copies the data file you are about to validate into that folder, and if it already exists it will just overwrite it without asking.