Can't create a new income category

Posted by rgirard on May 29, 2006, 2:51 am

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I am currently switching from Money 2005, tired of the problems I've
experienced there. Now I feel like I'm experiencing similar
inexplicable problems in Quicken 2006 Premier.

Most recently: Am trying to clean up my categories list. Have noticed
that a lot of my "income" categories (like Wages & Salary) are in the
"expense" list. So, I've tried to recategorize them, and even when I
do so they still show up as expense categories.

In fact, when I create a new category called "Test" as an income
category, it still shows up as an "expense" category (even tho the cat
type is "income").

Any thoughts?

Posted by John Pollard on May 29, 2006, 10:03 am

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>I am currently switching from Money 2005, tired of the problems

>I've

> experienced there. Now I feel like I'm experiencing similar

> inexplicable problems in Quicken 2006 Premier.

> Most recently: Am trying to clean up my categories list. Have

> noticed

> that a lot of my "income" categories (like Wages & Salary) are

> in the

> "expense" list. So, I've tried to recategorize them, and even

> when I

> do so they still show up as expense categories.

> In fact, when I create a new category called "Test" as an

> income

> category, it still shows up as an "expense" category (even tho

> the cat

> type is "income").

> Any thoughts?

Possibly corruption, possibly occuring from the conversion. I
doubt you will see that behavior if you create a New Quicken
file and add or modify categories there.

If the phenomena appears immediately after the conversion, I
would think it's either your Money data or the conversion has a
bug. If Money has a utility to clean up its data, I would use
that, then redo the conversion.

For the Quicken data: try Validating your fileset (File > File
Operations > Validate).