Just a quick note of warning to those Mac lovers using Quicken for personal finance and the .Mac Backup program.
I performed an erase and install this week and restored my data files from an external drive using Backup. After the restore, my Quicken files opened up but were missing about a months worth of data. Further investigation led to the discovery that Backup was splitting my Quicken data file into two pieces, and appending a BCKD file extension to the second portion (description was Split Backup File).
This split file was not restored correctly, resulting in the data loss. My first (unsuccessful) attempt was to remove the BCKD extension and open the resulting file in Quicken. The program promptly crashed. I was finally able to resolve the problem by manually migrating data from the split package into the original package, but if I had not known how to perform the merge the data would have been lost.
So, if anyone knows why Backup is splitting files in the first place, and more specifically, why Backup is not properly merging split files during the restore process, I'm sure someone here (ME!) would be very interested.
Hope this information helps someone else. I was very frustrated and still have not found any documentation of this incompatibility anywhere.
Regards,
Richard
I performed an erase and install this week and restored my data files from an external drive using Backup. After the restore, my Quicken files opened up but were missing about a months worth of data. Further investigation led to the discovery that Backup was splitting my Quicken data file into two pieces, and appending a BCKD file extension to the second portion (description was Split Backup File).
This split file was not restored correctly, resulting in the data loss. My first (unsuccessful) attempt was to remove the BCKD extension and open the resulting file in Quicken. The program promptly crashed. I was finally able to resolve the problem by manually migrating data from the split package into the original package, but if I had not known how to perform the merge the data would have been lost.
So, if anyone knows why Backup is splitting files in the first place, and more specifically, why Backup is not properly merging split files during the restore process, I'm sure someone here (ME!) would be very interested.
Hope this information helps someone else. I was very frustrated and still have not found any documentation of this incompatibility anywhere.
Regards,
Richard