Quicken creates a historical copy of your data every seven days and stores five of these copies in a BACKUP folder. If you want to preserve the current file, you must rename the current file or the file you are restoring. We recommend to avoid overwriting files. Be aware that you'll lose any changes you made since the backup was created. What does it mean to overwrite a file?: Restoring a backup file replaces your current data with the data stored on the backup disk.

If you are restoring a file over the current file, click OK to overwrite the current file then click Yes to open the restored file.After naming the file and selecting the location, click Save, then click Yes to open the restored file. If you Create a copy, you will need to select a location to save the copy to and you will also need to give the copy a unique file name.On the following prompt you will be given the option to overwrite the file you have open or to create a copy of the backup you're restoring.Select the file to restore and click Open then Restore Backup.The Quicken backup file has the extension. Browse your computer or external media to find the backup file you want to restore.Select Restore from your backup, then click Browse.Select the File > Backup and Restore > Restore from Backup File.