Cal,

I suspect that the answer is close to your #1. I was in MS Money Plus this
morning, and so here is the file name that was saved this morning:

MSMONEY Backup_2008-10-11_100718.mdf

All of the backup files are patterned after that, with only the date and
time of saving it being different. I'll try deleting all but the last 7
backup files and seeing what it gives me.

--
Rod


"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

- quote -

In microsoft.public.money, Rod wrote:

- quote -

There is more than one possibility.

1. For a given root name, as you back up, Money will write one new
file, and delete at *most* one file that fits the pattern. The
pattern is that the root name matches, and that has an underscore
the date/time code after that. If you had 40 already, setting 7
would make you hold at 40. You would want to manually delete all of
the excess older .mbf files, that meet the pattern, manually.

2. You may have backups with different root names (the part you
specify in the Settings, and the part before the underscore that is
before the date stamp. This could come from running more than one
Money file, or changing the root name that Money uses for the names
of the backup files.

3. When you do a restore, Money makes an uncompressed *.mbf that
does not have the underscore followed by the date stamp. That is not
part of the pattern that Money automatically deletes, so it is not
part of that limiting process. Delete these manually.

4. If you made your scheduled backup to the same folder (a bad
idea), those would have their own pattern and count. I like to make
those scheduled backups to a USB flash drive.

I've got Money Plus Premium. In the backup settings I have it set to save
only the last 7 backups.

I've got 40 backup files. Why is that???
--
Rod