File corrupted itself in the middle of the night?

Rocket J Squirrel

I used QWin yesterday with no problems. Shut down my PC last night at bedtime (with QWin closed, of course).

This morning, I found my data file could not be opened, validated, or super-validated. Somehow it had become toast. In all my years of Quickening, I'd never before seen this error.

Chris_QPW

I have never seen that message before either, but when corruption happens we never know that it happens until after we open the data file and access the part of the data file that is corrupted.  So, it didn’t have to happen in the middle of the night, it could very well be that it happened as it was writing out the data file the night before.

markus1957

That happened to me with that message a few updates ago. I had forgotten to turn off OneDrive and when I launched Quicken, it immediately went into an update without UAC window. It closed the file and updated. Upon re-opening after the update, that is the message I saw. I had to do the restore.

I chalked it up to a OneDrive conflict, but you didn't mention that.

Rocket J Squirrel

markus1957 said:

I chalked it up to a OneDrive conflict, but you didn't mention that.

That's because I don't use OneDrive or any other similar utility.