Quicken creates two backup files

rrgord

I changed the location of my backups to a different drive. When I did my first backup to the new drive, Quicken created two backups. One was in a new folder created by Quicken called "Backup" and the other file was in the root directory of the new drive. Now every time I backup, two backup files are created. They appear to be the same file. Why?

Boatnmaniac

So you are doing manual backups? If so, are your backup preferences also set to do automatic updates?

Boatnmaniac

So you are doing manual backups? If so, are your backup preferences also set to do automatic updates?

rrgord

Well, yes, that was the problem. The automatic backups go into a new folder named "backup" and the manual backups go into the root directory. I've unchecked the manual backup in preferences and now get just the auto backups. Apparently I've been doing both backups for quite a while. I've only been using Quicken for 25-30 years so I'm kinda new at this. 🙄 Thank you.

Boatnmaniac

Whew! I'm glad it was that easy to fix. Good thing you mentioned changing the backup file location because that is what triggered it for me. Otherwise I'm pretty sure I would be scratching my head about what could possibly be causing it.

I do the same thing: Almost entirely only Automatic backups and after every session. I also have it set to save the last 40 backups which comes to about the last 20 days. And then I keep the end of quarter file file for at least 1 year. So I never have a risk of not having the right backup file when needed. The only times I do manual backups (which is rarely) is when I've made a bunch of important updates/edits and I want to make a backup with the file still being being open before making more updates/edits. Too many people don't back up enough and many of them end up regretting that.

rrgord

I agree about backups. That's why I changed the drive. I wanted the backups to be on a different drive than the one where the current data was located. I've been working on updating my backups and making sure I have a drive image in case I need it. I realized that I hadn't reviewed my backups since early last year. I like to have multiple backups on different disks. Everything's fine until it isn't!