

- HOW TO UPGRADE MACBOOK PRO HARD DRIVE USING SUPERDUPER UPDATE
- HOW TO UPGRADE MACBOOK PRO HARD DRIVE USING SUPERDUPER PASSWORD
Personally, I have automation set up that locally encrypts my backup file before uploading to Dropbox, but that gets a bit technical.
HOW TO UPGRADE MACBOOK PRO HARD DRIVE USING SUPERDUPER PASSWORD
(Don't store your working Quicken file in the cloud - that's not supported.) If you are going to store backups in the cloud, I recommend you set a file password (menu File > Set File Password) so that the file in encrypted locally and you are not reliant on the cloud service's security. That provides you with an offsite backup. You can set the backup folder location to Dropbox, iCloud Drive or another cloud storage.
HOW TO UPGRADE MACBOOK PRO HARD DRIVE USING SUPERDUPER UPDATE
By recovering the app from the trash and the special pre-update backup, you can revert to before you did the update if needed.įor general backup, yes, I have Quicken set to backup every time the program is closed. When Quicken updates the app, the old app is moved to the trash. These are separate from any automatic backups you may have set up. You can view the backup folder by clicking menu File > Show Backups in Finder. Whenever you update, Quicken automatically makes a special backup which will be named "BACKUP (Pre-Update) - YourFileName 2021-MM-DD" and placed in your backup folder. I usually wait until the 6.X.1 version comes out before updating the desktop, but not always. I update the laptop first and make sure that's good for a while before updating the desktop.

I run a 2nd copy on my laptop with a copy of my data file.
