Re: Menu Bar

John Pollard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
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).
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