Safest way to review a backup without restoring it.

boreham

10 Jul, 2025 09:54 AM

I would like to review the state of my accounts before I made a number of recent changes.

I DO NOT want to restore the backup and have it replace the current version. I just want to analyse the differences.

Is there a best way of doing this?

Thanks

  1. #1 Posted by dwg on 10 Jul, 2025 10:00 AM

    Restoring a backup creates a new account set with the date of the backup appended, i.e. it uses the name of the backup file as the name of the created account set, so it does not overwrite anything.

    You have to restore a backup before it can be opened in Moneydance.

  2. #2 Posted by boreham on 10 Jul, 2025 10:10 AM

    Thanks very much for quick reply

  3. #3 Posted by boreham on 10 Jul, 2025 11:13 AM

    That worked well.

    I had to restore three backups to find the one I wanted.

    In the restore process I unchecked the option to keep the sync status of the original file, which meant the restored backups did not go to Dropbox.

    When I had finished I went to the Documents folder from the Help menu and deleted them.

    Thanks again.

  4. #4 Posted by dwg on 10 Jul, 2025 11:43 AM

    My personal feeling is that not keeping the sync status should be the default. It is the safest option.

  5. System closed this discussion on 09 Oct, 2025 11:50 AM.

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