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Jay Garland
Jay Garland Member Posts: 130 ✭
edited July 2020 in Accounts Hosted
My settings are BACKUP to keep three backups in the backups folder. However, it doesn't appear to be deleting past back-ups. Is this because it's RECKON HOSTED? It would be great if this function worked.

I've not been able to find a way to delete the pile-up of backups in the backup folder. How do you purge the old ones?

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  • John Graetz
    John Graetz Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭
    edited December 2016
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    Kevin.  If you don't periodically delete them out of the Hosted backup folder, you will eventually get contacted by Reckon, telling you that you have taken up up a few GB of storage with your backups.  This is is what happened to me, so I delete them out of that folder every month, but keep copies for longer than this on my hard drive.  John L G
  • Jay Garland
    Jay Garland Member Posts: 130 ✭
    edited November 2017
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    I do back-up most everytime after using Reckon. I do download backups once a month to my PC. What I can't work out how to do is to DELETE the pile of backups that are appears on my B:\ drive. The settings say it will only keep THREE backups but it's actually keeping ALL of them. I can't work out how to purge some of my older backups files.
  • Jay Garland
    Jay Garland Member Posts: 130 ✭
    edited November 2016
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    Yes - it would be nice to have this done with the auto-cleanup function which doesn't appear to be working.
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  • Jay Garland
    Jay Garland Member Posts: 130 ✭
    edited November 2016
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    The CNTRL+D worked - though it's not at all intuitive. I wouldn't have worked that out by myself.... The backup function needs some attention, doesn't it?
  • Jay Garland
    Jay Garland Member Posts: 130 ✭
    edited November 2016
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    That being said, when you select a backup it automatically tries to open it. It's not even logical that you should use the arrow keys to select the backup to be deleted and press CNTRL+D. It would be good if RECKON had the auto-back-up clean-up function working so I didn't need to do this!
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