Quicken

[cjsmith]

I am a zealous, overexcited new convert.

Entered about sixteen months' worth of old cash and check expenditure data while in Louisville. Now need credit card data and bank charges, as I didn't have those statements with me there. I feel so potentially organized.

Comments

[ozdachs.livejournal.com]

Congratulations... and one word... "Backup".

I have used Quicken for many years without significant problems, and so by now don't record anything except in Quicken.

My life flashed in front of me last spring when the Dell laptop tech was in our living room mumbling about replacing the disk drive with a virigin one -- I knew that my Quicken disks were at least a month old.

I sleep better now knowing I back up at least once a week.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When I was in Kentucky I didn't have any place to back up my data except a different file on the same disk. That's not ideal for sixteen months' worth of cash data! It's time to implement a better strategy now that I'm home -- thanks for the reminder.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

USB key!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Didn't bring it to Louisville. Now there's no excuse not to set up the USB drive deal and build a weekly habit...