i have yet to find anyone at intuit be able to resolve this problem with auto back up or scheduled backups. they simply do not work.  a manual backup works perfectly to all file locations i have tried. using the scheduled or auto back on closing the company file only produces the temp file in the folder you are backing up to. why can't anyone in intuit resolve this?  I've looked for the preference in QB 2020 for quickbooks to quick start however this preference no longer exists.  There doesn't seem to be a fix for this. I have updated to all latest releases as of today and the behavior is still the same. i am not backing up to a network drive so permissions are not the issue. I'm simply trying to do an auto backup or scheduled backup to a folder on the computer i'm working on. it still fails with a temp file being left in that folder. there has to be some other reason for this... the behavior is exactly the same for a scheduled backup or an auto backup upon closure of the company file.. does anyone in the entire company have any suggested fix for this? please advise.