mac data for 5 years after recent quicken upgrade

txlili

:o went to check some financial info tonight only to find all my quicken files were only to 2017. i have used quicken for well over a decade. this has never happened. i recently paid my annual fee & accepted their latest update offer (which is almost every time i open quicken - i rarely accept it). this missing data happened after that update. i got one account to update to 2022 but it using some categories that i haven't used for over 3 years. no deposits shown. i MANUALLY enter data - not from a banking institution download. help! needless to say, this has ruined my day & i see HOURS/DAYS of work ahead of me if it's even possible to reconstruct 5 years.

jacobs

I agree with @RickO that it's likely that Quicken lost its setting for your most recently-used file, and simply opened whichever data file it came to first, which was a 5-year old file. In addition to looking for your current .quicken data file, you should also be able to restore your most recent .quickenbackup file. The default location is similar to the above:
/Users/(your username)/Library/Application Support/Quicken/Backups/Automatic Backups

Unless you have turned off automatic backups, Quicken generates a backup each time you quit the program. Additionally, it automatically makes a backup each time you install a new version, so at the least, you should find "BACKUP (Pre-Update) - (your data file name)" in this folder.