Images, use copy, then copy back to original

[Bruce Roberson]

I regularly use Quicken 2006 on my desktop computer. When I travel, I
ordinarily copy the data dolder to my laptop and use it with no trouble

With regard to the images I had been attaching, I forgot to copy the
attach folder so no images are available when using the laptop at that
point.

My question is this. If I copy the quicken data files back onto the
desktop, will the transactions formerly linked to images find the
images again, and the notes etc. Or will they all be screwed up? If so,
maybe I can re record this time any new transactions and then remember
next time to copy those extra folder's data.

Thanks,


Bruce

[John Pollard]

bruceroberson@cox.net wrote: I regularly use Quicken 2006 on my desktop computer. When I travel, I ordinarily copy the data dolder to my laptop and use it with no trouble With regard to the images I had been attaching, I forgot to copy the attach folder so no images are available when using the laptop at that point. My question is this. If I copy the quicken data files back onto the desktop, will the transactions formerly linked to images find the images again, and the notes etc. Or will they all be screwed up? If so, maybe I can re record this time any new transactions and then remember next time to copy those extra folder's data.

I would have to guess and I would guess that you would be ok if
you "copy" the data fileset back to the desktop. (Quicken does
not create an Attach folder if there are no attachments; and if
the Quicken data contains attachments, but no Attach folder is
present, Quicken does not appear to create one.)

You can test this fairly easily by backing up your desktop data
including the Attach folder (Quicken automatically backs up the
Attach folder if there is sufficient room on the backup media -
in this case you could just backup to another folder on your
hard drive) ... then copy your laptop data back to the original
desktop folder and test. The worst that can happen is you lose
the data you entered on the laptop (because you have to return
to the "backup").

To help you "remember" in the future, there are a couple of
approaches (at least) you could consider. One is to put your
Quicken data in a folder all its own, then plan to copy that
entire folder (which will include the Attach folder) to your
laptop and back each time.

Alternatively, since Quicken backup will backup the Attach
folder and Quicken restore will restore the Attach folder, you
could use Backup/Restore to move your data back and forth.

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[Mike]

bruceroberson@cox.net wrote: I regularly use Quicken 2006 on my desktop computer. When I travel, I ordinarily copy the data dolder to my laptop and use it with no trouble With regard to the images I had been attaching, I forgot to copy the attach folder so no images are available when using the laptop at that point. My question is this. If I copy the quicken data files back onto the desktop, will the transactions formerly linked to images find the images again, and the notes etc. Or will they all be screwed up? If so, maybe I can re record this time any new transactions and then remember next time to copy those extra folder's data.

A previous poster once experimented with this and reported
unrecoverable loss of the linkage between attachments and the Quicken
data file.

[John Pollard]

Mike wrote: A previous poster once experimented with this and reported unrecoverable loss of the linkage between attachments and the Quicken data file.

I did a very quick test before my previous post and the few
attachments (only a couple of account statements) in my test
file were listed and viewable. If I were doing it for real, I
would do much more exhaustive testing.

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[Bruce Roberson]

Notes stayed but most images did not. It was good i had the backup to
restore in this case.
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news:Ica9f.526266$xm3.287982@attbi_s21... Mike wrote: A previous poster once experimented with this and reported unrecoverable loss of the linkage between attachments and the Quicken data file. I did a very quick test before my previous post and the few attachments (only a couple of account statements) in my test file were listed and viewable. If I were doing it for real, I would do much more exhaustive testing. -- John Pollard First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com Please reply to newsgroup