Yep, now I recall the lamenting how dumb Mny to clobber the previous
good hdd backup upon exit. Shoot self in foot after sitting down.

arthur
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:28:28 -0500, Cal Learner-- MVP
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Great post! Now I understand.
Thank you very much

Jay Ferris


"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Jay Ferris wrote:

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The purpose was to ADD the ability to save more than one backup, and
that is datestamped in the filename. Multiple backups are very good.
Many people would do something unwanted, quit Money, and have Money
automatically overwrite the only backup. Money does it right if it
considers the drive to be a hard/non-removable drive; it will delete
the older backups. But on a floppy/removable drive, it uses code
that can span volumes if the media fills up. Hence the "D1" in the
filename. That code somehow ignores the maximum number field
(side-effect bug). Since that bug has a workaround (manually
deleting the older files), I assume that it is considered a low
priority thing.

If the driver for that flash drive told the OS that this was a hard
drive, I expect the backup file to not invoke the code that is
prepared to span volumes, and that the maximum number would be
honored.

So while this is irritating, it is still much better than the old
single-backup behavior IMHO.

Ok, thanks for the input. The only thing I do not understand is when I used
Money 2002 it would delete the older backups on my flashcard and only keep
the latest. Why would MS remove that very useful option?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Jay Ferris wrote:

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It's not something that you can fix. Your workaround is to delete
the old backups manually.

How about diskette mentality? Picture a diskette with 1.4 meg. You
write 1 copy to it (maybe) - compressed. Next copy goes to another
diskette or overwrites the previous. Mny predates high density
removable media.

I really have no answer except the workaround solutions.

arthur
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:16:01 -0400, "Jay Ferris"
<snowmobilerNOSPAM[at]adelphia.net> wrote:

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Ok, I tried setting the backups to go to my harddrive and it did only keep 1
backup as I selected in backup options, but it keeps creating additional
backups when I changed it back to save to my flash card. There must be a way
to fix this behavior?


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I have 1 backup copy set from Options > Backup settings and it works.
I had one file set as 2 and that worked fine. Running M2006 too. I
have 4 data files. I am not backing up to any non local hdd as I
periodically copy files to another computer.

You could manually dump the latest mny file to your flashcard and just
keep a local backup on the hdd.

arthur
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:21:44 -0400, "Jay Ferris"
<snowmobilerNOSPAM[at]adelphia.net> wrote:

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I uninstalled Money 2002 and installed money 2006. When money closes I have
it set to backup to a flashcard. The problem is that it keeps creating
additional backups even though I have it set to only keep the most recent 2
backups. I have tried turning this on and off and even setting it to keep
only 1 backup. Any ideas?

Thanks