How to Recover Quicken Backup

Quicken financial software, published by Intuit Inc., provides personal and business financial management and tracking solutions. Given the importance of maintaining accurate financial records, backing up copies of Quicken files is can save a user from a software or hardware glitch that corrupts or destroys data. A Quicken user may find that an older backup has information accidentally deleted from a file.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Automatic Backup

1. Open Quicken and click "Restore" or "Restore Backup File" in the "File" menu to begin searching for an auto-backup of your data Quicken makes every seven days by default.

2. Select "Browse my computer" to point to the Quicken subfolder "BACKUP." If your version of Quicken doesn't provide this option, select the drive where Quicken automatically saved a backup and click the "OK" button. Browse for the file after the "Restore Quicken File" window opens and open it or simply click "OK."

3. Choose the most recent backup, typically designated as the file name followed with a "1," by clicking on the name or typing it in the "File name" field. Load the backup by clicking "OK."

Online Backup

1. Access your Quicken Online Backup account if you have one to recover your backup data for Quicken versions 2007 or later.

2. Open Quicken, click "Restore" or "Restore Backup File" in the "File" menu and select "Browse Online Backup."

3. Choose the most recent date- and timestamped file from the list and click "OK."

4. Go to the "File" menu and click "Open" to access the recovered backup.

Tips & Warnings

• If you're working in a file with the same name as your Quicken backup file but need data from the backup, change the name of the new file and save before recovering the backup file. The Quicken backup file will overwrite a file with an identical name.

References

• Quicken homepage
• Quicken Support