Backup frequency set to 0 after recent Quicken update

camner

As you can see from the screenshot above, after a recent Quicken update, both the backup frequency and the number of backups to keep has been set to 0. I don't understand how Quicken will respond with zeros in these fields. Quicken help talks about setting the number to between 1 and 99, but says nothing about what Quicken will do if these fields are set to 0

camner

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Boatnmaniac

Once in a while when the Quicken version gets updated there will be one or more Preferences that get changed. The Backup Preferences getting changed is perhaps the one that is my biggest concern. Because of this issue, I always review all of my Preferences after every version update. You might want to consider doing the same.

With 0's now set for the Backup preferences it should not affect the performance of your installation or the data file. But it is telling Quicken that your Automatic backup files to be retained is to be 0 so Quicken will attempt to delete all of your Automatic Backups. It will also tell Quicken that there should be no Automatic Backups done….ever.

So, if you have not changed your Backup Preferrences, you might want to do that sooner rather than later.

Whether or not you do manual Backups, IMO, doing Automatic Backups is something everyone should be doing. My recommendation is that everyone should back up their data file after every Quicken session and to keep a minimum of 3-4 weeks of Backup files. So, for example, for someone who runs Quicken 1X per week that would mean having a minimum of 3-4 backup files saved. For someone who runs Quicken every day they would have a minimum of 21-28 backup files saved. Doing this can potentially save you a lot of heartache and frustration should your main data file ever get corrupted.