Quicken program and data are located on OneDrive.
While attempting to move my data file to my hard drive I realized that both Quicken and it's data file is on OneDrive. I have no Quicken folder on my local PC. I did not move the data file. Is it necessary to have both the program and data on the same drive? Can I just move the data to a newly created Quicken folder on my computer? Any other suggestions? What is the actual risks of continuing to access the data from OneDrive?
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Quicken Classic Deluxe
Windows 11 Home
V. R67.7
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The Quicken program should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken.
Your data file <qdata>.QDF by default goes to C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Quicken.
Are they located there?
Here's a support article on storing your data file in a location sync'd with One Drive.
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The risk of having a live data file on a cloud-based drive is that the file can get corrupted, as we often see here in the forum. So, this set-up is not supported by Quicken.
You can place your file anywhere on your computer. The only thing to avoid is to not place it in a folder that is synced to any cloud-based storage, like DropBox, OneDrive, etc., as the same corruption issue applies.
And no, the software and the data file do not need to be on the same drive; only that they both be on drives connected to the same computer. The Quicken software will be located in the default location on the local drive, as noted above.
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