Lately, Quicken files are not really Quicken files - rather they are file
bundles.

Due to a lot of bad-mouthing of Stuffit archives on these forums (and the
fact that Stuffit now had a new publisher making me concerned for the
survival of the product), I'd been compressing my Quicken backups with
tar/gzip. Unfortunately, I found that doing this does NOT produce a backup
which (when restored) operated with Quicken 2006!

Here is are some stats:

What Size Works with Quicken 2006
Bkup 2006-05-28A.qdfm 9.3 MB Yes
Bkup 2006-05-28A.qdfm.sitx 812 KB Yes
Bkup 2006-05-28A.qdfm.tar.gz 812 KB No
Bkup 2006-05-28A.qdfm.zip 1.1 MB Yes

Anyway, just thought I'd post here since I had a boatload of backups stored
in tarred/gzipped format which no longer worked right after a restore -
forcing me to restore an old stuffit archive and forward recover.

Maybe I'll switch over to Finder's Create Archive of ... format <sigh>.

After all, the difference between Stuffit's 812KB and Finder's zip 1.1MB
isn't all that much in this day and age.

-- Verne