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Posted by Joe on March 10, 2007, 5:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options All my transactions are one of the following
XIn
Bought
Div
Reinvdiv
ReinvLg
ReinvSh
Would any of these be the cause of the error?
If it helps, my biggest manual touchup is going to be the way I accounted
for 401. I entered it in my paycheck I received every two weeks, and in the
paycheck (in my checking account) I was doing transfers (XIn) to my 401k.
Not sure if this is what you consider a placeholder.
> Joe wrote:
>> I ran the script from the forms as Bob suggested and it
>> worked great. The only issue I see is all the funds I
>> "bought" (and they are not "boughtx") show up with N/A in
>> the Cash Amount column. Any idea why ?
>
> You have one or more placeholders (Adjust Share Balance) transactions in
> the account.
>
> If you setup a new account and download to it, you usually don't get the
> option to Accept individual transactions, Quicken accepts them all
> automatically. Then Quicken seems to forget to ask you if you want it to
> "adjust" your share balances, it just enters placeholders automatically.
> (And your new account almost certainly would not have had correct share
> balances since most of its history was in a different account).
>
> Look for transactions with an Action value of "Entry", those are
> placeholders. (If you don't see any, have Quicken display hidden
> investment account transactions (Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program >
> Investment transactions).
>
> Since you are intending to have all the historical transaction in the
> account, you should probably just delete the placeholders.
>
> You may find that you will want to redo the qif file import; once a
> transaction becomes linked to a placeholder, it will never affect the cash
> in the account ... even if you delete the placeholder.
>
> So delete the placeholders before importing transactions from the other
> account.
>
>> I only imported "transactions', nothing else. I didn't
>> think anything else was needed.
>
> --
> John Pollard
> First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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