Data loss after updating to version 9.02

Question

After being away from my computer since April 19th, I turned in on on May 8th. Quicken for Mac presented a update to download and install. I automatically said yes and waited for the refresh. This had worked so seamlessly for years that I have no longer been manually saving backups. Imagine my surprise when the system was restored to the December 11th automatic backup. Since I had installed multiple updates since December, that presumably also created backup files, is there somewhere other than the "Automatic back-up" folder where I may be able to find a more recent back-up to restore, or am I just screwed?  Is there a possibility that the data file (80.4 MB) is just too large to store more transactions?

jacobs · Accepted Answer

The data files is not too large. Many people have larger data files, and there is no size limit.

Quicken creates an automatic backup of your data file each time you install a major update (e.g. going from  8.5.x to 9.0.x). Look in your backups folder for a file called "BACKUP (Pre-Update)" with your filename and a May 8 date.

But before you do that, it sounds like Quicken might have simply lost the pointer to your current data file. If you pull down File > Open Recent, does the pop-up menu show another version of your file name you can select. (The first file in the menu is the current one; the second one is the file most recently opened prior to the current one, and so on.) Or, if you navigate you the folder containing your Quicken data file — typically go up one level from the the Backups folder within the Quicken folder, and open the folder called Documents to see your data file(s).