I have 5 or 6 years of records in one file and its too big to backup onto a floppy. How can I remove a year or two of data and save a new version?
First, you should be aware that you can backup your file onto multiple diskettes without a problem. This allows you to keep several years of data in your file so that you can create reports using several years of data. I personally like having access to as many years of data as possible for comparison purposes. However, if you insist on reducing the size of the file to say three years, Start New Year, is an option. If you don’t reconcile your accounts with bank and credit card statements, this feature doesn’t work well, because all unreconciled transactions remain in the file. (If this is the case, you may want to export accounts and transactions for a specific time period to a QIF file. Create a new Quicken file and import the transactions in the QIF file to this new file.) Start New Year saves a copy of the current file, while creating a new file to contain only the data from the date you set and forward. You aren’t “losing” any data entered–previous years’ data stays in the copy fi
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