![]() Quicken closes/unlocks the data file at various times. If this has changed, as it sounds like it has for you, then all bets are off if any of those backup files are are any good.Īnd the reason I said “mostly” is because even when the locks are properly honored problems can arise. ![]() ![]() As far as I know Dropbox has been honoring that lock, and as such “mostly” works. Other programs are supposed to honor that and not touch it until it is unlocked. When Quicken opens its data file it opens in in a locked state (for both read and write). If you trash your data file, and they notice that you are going against that policy the most likely response will be, “start over”. The fact that it works or doesn’t work for you doesn’t change that policy. Note that is only telling you what Quicken Inc has already stated their policy is. This the main reason for not supporting this setup. On top of that some of these utilities might try to “merge” copies of the file from different machines, which is impossible to do correctly. If that isn’t the case then the backups might be garbage. As such databases need special consideration when they are backed up. As in one table might be updated that points to another table that hasn’t yet been updated. At any given moment the data might not be consistent. If there is any change, it is most likely on the Dropbox side, and it doesn’t sound like a good thing.Īt its heart the Quicken data file is a database.
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