onedrive on mac keeps asking for folder locations

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Never had any problems with this in 4-5 years of near-daily use of Quicken.

Because I have grown to employ Quicken for all my financial bookkeeping, I am employing desktop quicken with database resident on OneDrive.

Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: quicken online web interface.

I would also recommend saving back ups to an external source should any problems arise.

Quicken Tyka.

You are skating on thin ice if you are keeping your Quicken data file on a network drive.

Quicken does not support it due to the high number of reads and writes and the increased chance of data file corruption.

I hope you make routine backups of your data file on removable media.

I havent worked with OneDrive, but generally, Quicken for Mac is not supported for use on cloud-based drives.

Cloud drive are fine for storing backup copies, but should not be used to open the live data files.

If OneDrive copies your entire data file to your hard drive when you open it, and copies it back when youre done, that might work, but it still opens you to possible problems.

The issue is that the Quicken data file is a Mac package -- a folder of many folders and files inside a wrapper which makes it appear to be a single file.

There have been problems over the years with file permission problems developing when the data file is moved around, and people get locked out of their data.

It doesnt happen often, but if it happens to you, you dont care that it works 99 of the time.

Onedrive On Keeps Ag For Folder Locations Software Directly Accessing

Quicken is not supported for use with cloud backup software directly accessing the active Quicken data file.

Heres why.

A split second later it opens the file again to start the Backup process.

Make it use either the Automatic Backup file or the Manual Backup file.

It may interfere with some Quicken operations, especially Manual Backup.

The Automatic Backup file always goes to a Backup folder thats part of the folder which contains your current Quicken data file, usually DocumentsQuickenBackup.

Select the Add date stamp to file name option so you get multiple backups and not just one that is overwritten every time.

Reading the authortative comment regarding cloud-based files, as I read it the major risk is more than one computer simutainously accessing the files.

Given that I am the only user and only use one computer at a time, it would appear to minimize the risk.

But I get the point and I will change my strategy store the datafile on the cloud and download to local machine for actual use.

And yes I backup local files when closing Quicken and backup database and the backup files every night.

The way it works, OneDrive keeps copies of the file both on your hard drive and in the cloud.

When you close that file at the end of a session, OneDrive then updates the cloud copy and then updates from the cloud the local file on any other computers that are tied to the same OneDrive user account.

Onedrive On Mac Keeps Asking For Folder Locations