Re: Menu Bar
John Pollard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.financial.quicken |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 11:07:40 AM UTC-6, Ken Blake wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 08:03:13 -0800 (PST), John Pollard wrote: > >But before you do, save that downloaded Quicken install file. > >I also suggest you take a few fairly simple steps that might aid you > >if you have another experience like this one. > >- Create a new Windows folder to hold files you will NEVER use directly > >- From Quicken, create a New Quicken data file in that new folder > > (give the Quicken file a name that describes it and suggests you never actually use it > > such as: "NEW-Never-used-Never-use", ... whatever name you like, to help you remember). > I backup my Quicken data file every couple of days, both to my hard > drive and then to a thumb drive. So I always have lots of old data > files available (at the moment they go back to 10/4/2022) if I ever > need to use them again for something like this. But backup files contain data ... data which may be corrupted, or otherwise interfere with a test. The idea is to have a pristine Quicken file that has NO user data (and never had any user data).