Why does File > Backup to Disk... fail?
Before iDisk went away, I used to backup my "Quicken Data.qdfm" data to it daily, and I don't remember it ever not putting the file there.
With the Lion version, that File option of course went away, so now I run "File > Backup to Disk...".
Even though it is to the computer's internal hard drive, that Quicken also uses, when I do the backup, it sometimes fails with a message that says (my login ID has been replaced by XXXXXX, %20 is the ASCII code for a "space"):
Unable to backup your data file, file://localhost/Users/XXXXXX/Documen....
When I look in the folder the backup was to be written, it contains Quicken Data.qdfm and what I can only describe as an entry named using Chinese characters. I don't know how attachments appear. I've attached what Finder shows for the Backup folder.
I just delete them and run "File > Backup to Disk..." again, but it has become annoying that Quicken can't seem to interrupt what it's doing to simply make a copy. The 16.1.4 release has, if anything, exacerbated the problem.
iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 500 GB HDD Mac OS X 10.7.5
With the Lion version, that File option of course went away, so now I run "File > Backup to Disk...".
Even though it is to the computer's internal hard drive, that Quicken also uses, when I do the backup, it sometimes fails with a message that says (my login ID has been replaced by XXXXXX, %20 is the ASCII code for a "space"):
Unable to backup your data file, file://localhost/Users/XXXXXX/Documen....
When I look in the folder the backup was to be written, it contains Quicken Data.qdfm and what I can only describe as an entry named using Chinese characters. I don't know how attachments appear. I've attached what Finder shows for the Backup folder.
I just delete them and run "File > Backup to Disk..." again, but it has become annoying that Quicken can't seem to interrupt what it's doing to simply make a copy. The 16.1.4 release has, if anything, exacerbated the problem.
iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 500 GB HDD Mac OS X 10.7.5
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1) Delete the contents of the (probably, unless you renamed it) "Backup Files" folder
2) Run "File > Backup to Disk..."
3) Close Quicken
4) Replace the default "Quicken Data.qdfm" (probably in the Documents folder) with the one in the (probably, unless you renamed it) "Backup Files" folder
the "File > Backup to Disk..." failure rate decreases considerably (once in a month, instead of a few times a week). Not only that, "File > Backup to Disk..." now runs considerably faster (unexpected benefit).