I've been using Quicken since 2005 and my data file is large. Any harm in this?

malgaze
malgaze Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭
edited April 13 in File Conversion and Backup (Windows)

Should I create a new file? I don't think it's causing any issues but I do wonder if there's a best practice about this?

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  • GeoffG
    GeoffG Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    The best practice is to leave the file as is. There is no reason to fret over the size, especially if you are not experiencing any issues. Databases can be extremely large by their nature.

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  • splasher
    splasher Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    What do you consider large?

    Mine is about 110MB with no attachments in it, so it is all data.

    Like, GeoffG, I suggest keeping it all in one data file. If you are saving attachments in your data file, you might consider storing them in a folder structure outside of Quicken to keep the overall data file size down. One reason for doing this is that you can only get to attachments in Quicken one at a time and if you did figure out a way to pull them out of the data file in mass, they are encrypted in such that only Quicken can decrypt them. It also means that your backups are large.

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    Ps56k2 Quicken Windows Subscription Alumni ✭✭✭✭

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