Sharimac wrote:I have Quicken 2006 Basic and it just recently started giving me this message: 'Quicken's most recently used files list can only show the first 50 files in this directory. You have too many files to list them all.' So, perhaps I have misunderstood the message. Can anyone interpret for me?
The 'most recently used file list' is the list of files that shows near the bottom of the menu when you click on the File menu entry in the top left of Quicken. In my case, it shows only one file. You must be saving off and opening files with many different names (I don't just mean backing up files - these do not appear in the file list unless you actually open them). I think all your message means is that you have used more than 50 file names and Quicken can only show 50. I think your data is all fine. Sharimac wrote:I have Quicken 2006 Basic and it just recently started giving me this message: 'Quicken's most recently used files list can only show the first 50 files in this directory.
You have too many files to list them all.' So, perhaps I have misunderstood the message.
Can anyone interpret for me? The 'most recently used file list' is the list of files that shows near the bottom of the menu when you click on the File menu entry in the top left of Quicken. In my case, it shows only one file. You must be saving off and opening files with many different names (I don't just mean backing up files - these do not appear in the file list unless you actually open them). I think all your message means is that you have used more than 50 file names and Quicken can only show 50. I think your data is all fine. Since you can only open and use one file at a time, I'm thinking you could partition your hard drive or add another hard drive and install another copy of Quicken on it.
What's New in the 2018 Release of Quicken for Mac. Quicken for Windows - Creating an Income and Expense Report by Category - Duration: 2 minutes,. Archive a file. In the Current Data File area, click Do nothing. In the Archive File area, in the Give this archive file a name and location field, change the Quicken-generated file name and location for the archive file. (Optional) Quicken stores your archive file in the folder containing the current data file (the Quicken folder by default). Click Browse if you want to store it in another location.
Then move some of the files over to the new and delete some from the old hard drive. None of my business but wondering why you have so many quicken files. If you don't regularly use all of them you could copy or backup file to a file outside of quicken. If you needed to look at the file in the future you could then reinstall the backup file. If you regularly use all 50 files then another copy on another drive or computer is probably the answer.
Might try asking the question on Quicken Community. Okay, I just checked the file list on the drop down in the upper left corner and it only shows one file used.
It's name is C: Documents and Settings Shari My Documents Quicken Qdata1. But then I went to the function under this drop down menu called 'Find Quicken Files' and saw a huge list with all the same designation beginning with my C: drive name. But, each of these was preceded by a number as a prefix and each number was different. Torrent rosetta stone. And each of these files was dated a few days apart. Could it be that everytime I am backing up a file (every few days) that it is saving a new file rather than overwriting the old file?
If so, could I be safe in eliminating all those old files that are just a few days apart in age? Thanks, Shari. Did that take care of your problem? I let autobackup do the job. Periodically thru the year I'll burn a backup to CD then transfer that to a second computer to check and make sure the copy is good. Already earned that badge for backup discs that don't work.
About 12 years ago my computer wouldn't boot. It was old so instead of having it fixed I just bought a new one. Went to install my Quicken file from the 7 1.44 disks of the time, got to the 6th disk and got a disk error that it couldn't read the disk.