Incomplete Validate Information

MSStateDawg
MSStateDawg Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2022 in Errors and Troubleshooting (Windows)
Your instructions for the Validate function are incomplete at this link:

https://help.quicken.com/display/WIN/Troubleshoot+a+damaged+Quicken+data+file

They do not state where the resulting validated/checked/fixed version of the data file is placed. Is the resulting file in the VALIDATE folder the one that has been validated? Or, is that simply a backup of the original data file created by the Validate function and then the validated file left in the original location?

I guess I could [Removed - Language] open each one to see which still has the issue, or, I could do eenie-meenie-minie-moe, pick one, then validate it again and look at the resulting validate log.

I think it would probably be simpler if your technical writers actually completed the documentation, though. What say ye?

Quicken user since 1991

VP, Ops & Tech in the biometric space

Comments

  • markus1957
    markus1957 Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser, Windows Beta Beta
    The Validate folder contains a windows copy of the data file prior to the validation. The validated file is in the original file location. Each time validate is run, a file of the same name is overwritten in the validate folder.
  • MSStateDawg
    MSStateDawg Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
    markus1957 said:
    The Validate folder contains a windows copy of the data file prior to the validation. The validated file is in the original file location. Each time validate is run, a file of the same name is overwritten in the validate folder.
    Thanks. That is EXACTLY the text which should be added to the page at the link I shared.

    Quicken user since 1991

    VP, Ops & Tech in the biometric space

  • MSStateDawg
    MSStateDawg Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
    markus1957 said:
    The Validate folder contains a windows copy of the data file prior to the validation. The validated file is in the original file location. Each time validate is run, a file of the same name is overwritten in the validate folder.
    Sadly, the Quicken folk STILL have not updated the help article to include this information.

    Quicken user since 1991

    VP, Ops & Tech in the biometric space

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