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Posted by Steve Dawson on July 8, 2006, 2:30 pm
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Have checked the loan setup and all was well. Don't know where to go next,
and Quicken support doesn't have any ideas beyond the copy and validate
routine I mentioned in my first email. They do say I could export my data
and then import it but have told me up front that the data may wind up more
corrupted than I have now. Don't want to throw all those years of data out
but it's looking like the only option now. Wish I knew the file structure
and I'd write a chunk of code to go open the file, and then write it back
out a tuple at a time with a display of each tuple for validation.
Steve Dawson
> When the Quicken Loan Wizard creates a loan payment, it is a split, with
> the principal portion of the payment being a "transfer" to the loan. Have
> you checked the loan setup to see if that transfer is correct?
>
> --
>
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
> Please reply to newsgroup
> All,
>
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> To provide a little more information. The version of Quicken I'm running
> is 2006 Deluxe on Windows XP Home with all the current updates applied.
>
> What I did was create a new auto loan with a new category for the interest
> (Interest Expense:Auto Loans:GMAC). This allowed me to create the category
> and loan account. Went to make the first payment and since I had set this
> up as a scheduled transaction that dialog box opened. Entered the check
> number from my checking account and clicked record payment. That's when
> the error message appeared.
>
> Prior to this I used a different checking account and created a new
> expense category for one of my cell phone accounts I also received the
> same error message. After copying the file, doing a validate and super
> validate I still received the error message. To correct it at that time I
> copied only transactions from 2000 into a new file keeping the open
> transactions and the investment transactions and was able to use the new
> expense category for the cell phone. This is the first new expense
> category I've added since doing that.
>
> Steve Dawson
> Steve Dawson wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I've been using Quicken since Parson's Technology Money Counts was
> merged with it. My data (QDF) file is around 38M and I've started noticing
> some strange happenings. For example it will let me create a new category
> for expenses but when I go to add a transaction that uses the category it
> tells me I can't use that account since I don't have a position in it.
> Quicken tech support (what a laugh!) is useless. They only say validate
> and then supervalidate and then export and import the data which causes
> such corruption that I would be better off starting from scratch.
>
> Have you tried any of that (validate and super validate. I would first
> try copying the database and then working on that copy)? What were the
> results?
>
> I have 2 questions. First has anyone had this problem and found a
> solution.
> Normally db copy, validate and super validate resolves most problems.
> Since you didn't bother to tell us what you tried and what were the
> results we can only speculate...
>
> Second is there a size limit where the QDF file starts to corrupt
> itself?
>
> The size limit of the QDF file is the limit of the underlying file system
> size. Files don't corrupt themselves simply because they are big. However
> as you approach the limits (what is NTFS's limit now a days? 4 gig?)
> corner cases can occur.
>
> -- Andrew DeFaria
> Avoid unnecessary, unessential and needless repetition and redundancy.
>
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