How do I get Quicken to stop saving my data file to One Drive?

M Spence

I do not download anything using Quicken except quotes for my investments. I do not download data from any of my financial institutions. I want to store my data file on my C: drive, not a cloud server based on an agreement to which I was not a party.

Chris_QPW

What you need to do is use Windows File Explorer to move the data file out of the OneDrive folder (while Quicken isn't running).

The default folder for Quicken data files is in Documents\Quicken. Unfortunately, when Windows asks if you want to use OneDrive to back up your Documents and pictures and such it will also end up moving the Quicken data file into the One Drive.

The original location:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents

New location:

C:\Users\NEWNAME\OneDrive\Documents

So, one possible place to move your Quicken folder/data file back to is: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents

In other words, move C:\Users\NEWNAME\OneDrive\Documents\Quicken to C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Quicken

Personally, I don't like it buried so far down so I just moved the Quicken folder to C:, so mine is at C:\Quicken.

You can always add either of these paths to your Quick access list by right clicking of the folder and selecting Pin to Quick access

Once you have your data file where you want it, just double click on it and it will open in Quicken and Quicken will remember where this it opened it last.

Be sure to check the preferences on where you want the backup files. Note that if you are going to backup to C:\Users\NEWNAME\OneDrive\Documents\Quicken then maybe you don't want to move the whole folder, just your data file to the new location outside of OneDrive, so that you don't affect the backups that can be on OneDrive.