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June 10th, 2004 13:00
Quicken Backup to CD
New Dell Dimension 4600 with Sonic software. Trying to make Quicken backup to CD. I can make a data disc, but cannot write to the disc from Quicken. Dragging Quicken files to the disc doesn't work. Thanks.
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fireberd
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June 10th, 2004 17:00
You will have to save the Quicken file to the hard drive and then copy that file from the hard drive. Many (most) programs will nto write to a CD. Even the Windows backup program will not backup to a CD.
A word of caution, using RW discs. Do not have your "only copy" of data on an RW disc. They have been known to lose format or data. After being bitten 3 times, I no longer use RW discs. If I have data that's important enough to be backed up, I use a CD-R. Even at 25 or even 50 cents each if the data is important, that is a small price to pay for the backup (actually I buy CD-R's in bulk when they are on sale and usually get them for less than 10 cents each).
Predator
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June 10th, 2004 17:00
Hi Zane,
The following Microsoft is suppose to address this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];316415
Also, if you do a Google Search on your question: "Dragging Quicken files to CD-R disc doesn't work"
you should get a number of relevant hits.
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the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.
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Message Edited by Predator on 06-10-2004 02:34 PM
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June 10th, 2004 20:00
I just got my Dimension 4600 and had the same problem. I used sonic to reformat a rw cd and then quicken backed up to it successfully. Have not tried writing over it yet. I did restore using the backup to on my old dell and quicken accepted the cd and restored it properly.
The formatting takes about 45 minutes.