

Four, if your file somehow becomes corrupted, you'll lose your attachments if you have to revert to a backup or completely start a new file. There is no outside way to retrieve an attachment aside from within the Quicken software. Third, you'll have to use Quicken to view the attachment. Second, Quicken has no way to mass delete those attachments as there is no separate folder you can just empty. And that will slow down your data file as those attachments get loaded. OK, here's my take on adding attachments to Quicken (Mac or Windows). So.may I ask.what difference is it if the size of your file is large or small? You'll need to re-adjust all your starting balances and of course any transfer transactions will be labelled as "uncategorized" if the other side of the transfer has been deleted. If you want to go that route, you can create a copy of your Quicken Mac data file and go through each register and mass select/delete transactions. My data file has transactions starting from 1990 and Quicken Mac is as fast as can be. Personally, there will be no advantage in file performance whether you have 30 years of transactions or one year of transactions. Quicken Mac does not have a year end copy feature. Second, Quicken Mac is based on an entirely different database architecture than Quicken Windows.and thus is not subjected to performance issues with large file sizes.

First of all, file size rarely has anything to do with Quicken Mac performance, unless you have a lot of attachments.
