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Backing Up Quicken Data Files and Attachments

Securing Your Personal Financial Data

By , About.com Guide

Learn how to protect your financial data from catastrophes like hard drive failures by backing up Quicken data. This tutorial tells you how to restore the data from your backup files.

Back Up Your Quicken Data

Back Up Quicken Data OftenScreen Shot by Shelley Elmblad
Backing up your personal finance data in Quicken is important, and you need to back up Quicken data files when you install a new version of the software, or migrate to another financial software that will convert and import the data.

Back Up Quicken Attachments

Quicken Transaction Attachments are indicated in the register by the paperclip icon.Screen shot by Shelley Elmblad
To back up Quicken image attachments, you need to do a little planning. Quicken attachments are not backed up automatically.

How to Restore Quicken Data

How to Restore Data from a Quicken BackupScreen shot by Shelley Elmblad
You've been faithfully backing up your Quicken data, and now you need to restore it. This tutorial explains how to restore from a Quicken backup without overwriting data (unless you want to overwrite data).

Tips to Resolve Quicken Restore Errors

Getting the "Disk is not ready. File not restored." error in Quicken? Here's the fix!

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