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The average lifespan of a business computer is three to five years, and when the computer gives up the ghost, it often comes suddenly, without any warning. When that time comes, recovering financial records and business operations data has the highest priority. If you use Intuit’s Quicken in your business, you can recover lost data and restore your Quicken data files.
The quickendata file extension is associated with the Quicken Essentials a personal finance management software for Apple Mac computers. The.quickendata file stores personal financial data, like investments, bank transactions etc. Open Quicken, click on the File menu, select “File Operations” and then choose “Rename.” Step 2 Choose the file you would like to rename, or type the name of the file in the “File name” field.
Restore Data Using Quicken’s Built-in Functions
2.Locate the last backup device. This may be a flash drive, diskette or external hard disk. Mount the device. If backups were performed to the local drive, and that drive is damaged, you will be unable to restore your Quicken files in this manner and will need to use your most recent external backup.
3.Click “File,” then “Backup and Restore” and then “Restore” to open the restore window. Enter the drive letter of the backup device, then click “Enter.” After a minute or so, the data will be restored and it should show in your main Quicken window.
4.Enter any transactions that occurred since the last backup.
Restore Files from Backup Media
1.Locate your backup media and install any software necessary to retrieve the data.
3.Start your backup/restore software or explore the backup device and locate the folder “My DocumentsQuicken.”
4.Restore or copy the data found in the Quicken folder from the backup into the new “My DocumentsQuicken” folder.
5.Start Quicken and click “File,” then “Open.” Browse to the new “My DocumentsQuicken” folder and select the file with the extension QDF, which is the Quicken Data File. If there are more than one of these files, open each until the most recent checks appear.
6.Enter any transactions that occurred since the last backup.
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Tip
- Earlier versions of Quicken saved the data in a variety of folders. If “My DocumentsQuicken” does not exist on the backup, try “Program FilesQuickenData” or search for files with the extension QDF.
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Rick Leander lives in the Denver area and has written about software development since 1998. He is the author of “Building Application Servers” and is co-author of “Professional J2EE EAI.' Leander is a professional software developer and has a Masters of Arts in computer information systems from Webster University.
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