Quicken for Mac 2007. Mac OS 10.13.2. On quitting, get '. Q can't automatcally update data file copy. ' I could not complete reindexing, rebuilding data file via 'Save a Copy' or the QIF export thing. Used this for 17 years, MUCH data. Says it '.can't erase partial files.'

And does not complete rebuild. Program still works well. Sometimes the ' day change' amount in the P.

Dec 13, 2018 - Quicken for Mac 2007, Essentials, 2015, 2016, and 2017; Quicken 2011. It's a good idea to hold on to a backup of your old data file for a while.

Window doesn't show up. Use it mostly for investment, personal household bills, checkbook, etc. Willing to go to new version if current files can be used, moved, etc. What version??? Mark, there is a known problem with automatic backups not working with Quicken 2007 for users who have upgraded to macOS 10.13.x and whose hard drive was updated to Apple's new APFS hard drive format as part of that upgrade. (Click on your hard drive icon in the Finder and select File > Get Info to see if your drive format is Mac OS Extended or APFS.) I'm not sure why you can't complete re-indexing, though; I'm not sure if that's related. Assuming your hard drive was converted to APFS, you should turn OFF Quicken 2007's automatic file backup function.

In Quicken, go to Quicken 2007 > Preferences, click on File Backup at the bottom of the list on the left size, un-check the 'Automatically back up the data file to disk' box, and click Save. 'what is \'antivirus for mac\''. (Alternatively, if you have an external drive which was not converted to APFS format, you could move your Quicken data file to that drive, and continue to use automatic backup.) After turning off Quicken's automatic backup, you now need to insure that you regularly make backups. This can be done in several ways -- and I recommend doing it *multiple* ways because, as you note, you have many years of valuable data in your file that you want to try to protect from corruption or loss. The simplest thing is to, in the Finder, click on your Quicken data file and Duplicate it. I like to rename the duplicate file with a date (e.g.

'Quicken 2017-12-26' or something like that) and move it to a folder for Quicken backups. Periodically, I throw out some older ones, but I know I have multiple generations of backups going back several years in case some data corruption shows up and I need to find a version before the data corruption occurred. If your Mac doesn't have a hard drive attached to use Apple's built-in Time Machine for automatic backups of all your data, I highly recommend this. An external hard drive costs about $100, plus or minus, depending on capacity, and once you turn it on and let it do the initial backup, backups are then automatic every hour. Even if you have a laptop computer, it's worth having a Time Machine hard drive you plug in periodically to allow it to back up your Mac.

Back to the inability to re-index: that's troubling, since Quicken 2007 is notorious for minor file corruption that re-indexing can typically resolve. I would try moving a copy of your data file onto a non-APFS drive and then trying again to re-index. (If you don't have an additional hard drive, do you have a flash drive you can pop in and try this with?) My concern is that if you've got a database corruption problem you can't fix in Quicken 2007, it's possible -- not certain, just possible -- you'd have problems trying to import the data file into the modern Quicken (aka Quicken 2018) if you purchased it. Jacobs, thank you for your very helpful and complete reply. I have followed your 'simplest thing' solution.

Turned off auto backup, duplicated last data file and dated it. Yes, my MacBook drive is APFS format.

I am not a 'superuser', so I could go with the manual backup simplest. I back up everything every Friday manually with Carbon Copy Cloner, for years; started when it was shareware! How to remove subtotals in excel 2016 for mac. Felt my usage does not warrant Time Machine which is awkward with a laptop.?

But I don't know how Time Machine works. Could get another external, etc. I found that the Backup Mac OS partition on my external drive, i.e., lightweight OWC Express USB 3.0 SSD enclosure, is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). (Not permanently connected, of course. This partition is bootable, so I could check, use it to check Q operation when booted in this partition. (The Bootcamp Windows 10 partition is not bootable yet.

I did the Windows partition for a special function; not using it yet.) Any suggestions how I might use this partition for this problem? Now, yes, what worries me is: can I import all my (years) of data into Quicken 2018?? Is there a way to check before buying it.? If it didn't import my data, well, I could do it on the backup partition and then move the file back to the internal drive?? Willing to go to the new version, if it will go willingly. Pretty sure I have some DB problem.?? Thanks for any suggestions.

Mark, Carbon Copy Cloner is a fine option for full-disk backups. I use SuperDuper, which is a similar full-drive backup program, to do periodic backups. I rotate between two hard drives, taking one to my office so I have one off-site in the event of a fire or other home catastrophe. That said, backups can be problematic, too. About two years ago, I have a problem with the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. (Long story short: after much frustration and trial-and-error, it turned out to be the thin, flat cable connecting the drive to the motherboard which was flaky, but to get to that conclusion, I had already replaced the hard drive.) When I went to restore from my backup to a replacement hard drive, SuperDuper got part-way through the restore and failed with a read error from my backups hard disk.