Lost my Transaction Password

Posted by Walter_Slipperman on July 8, 2008, 12:26 pm

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I thought the concept was one password to open Quicken and a second separate
password to open the Password vault.   I decided that in order to help my
wife also use Quicken I'd change the first password to something a bit
easier to remember than the randomly generated password that I was first
using.  So I changed it.  But now all the accounts that I have set up are
asking for a "Transaction Password" which appears to be the old randomly
generated password that I no longer have written down anywhere.   (I use a
separate password application, Password Safe, to generate and store all my
passwords on my computer and I deleted the random password and didn't save
it anywhere.)

I can't edit the accounts, nor even delete them and start again, without
that old password.  What do I have to do at this point?  Throw away the
Qdata file?   (I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2008 on Windows).

Walter

Posted by L on July 8, 2008, 1:59 pm

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I've used Quicken for over a decade, and never have seen a 'transaction
password'

So I looked it up.

The transaction password is a feature that prompts for a password before
changing transactions on or before a specific date. It is used primarily for
archived files.

Do you use the password vault in Quicken? If so, and if you set that pw to
something you remember, you should be able to obtain the 'transaction
password' by looking in the vault.

Anyway, I HOPE you can.

Posted by John Pollard on July 8, 2008, 4:35 pm

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Walter_Slipperman wrote:

As Laura said, the "transaction password" controls access to
"transactions" (more specifically, all transactions before a
certain date).

I can only think of two ways you can get a transaction password
assigned: you choose to assign one - even if by accident (both
are accessed via "File > Passwords ... it would be easy enough
to accidentally allow the set "transaction" password option to
be selected and if you weren't paying attention, to create a
transaction password when you did not want to); or you get some
corruption in your data that causes Quicken to believe you
created a transaction password.

In either case, if you can not come up with the actual
transaction password (which would give you access to all
transactions and also allow you to remove the transaction
password), I think you have two choices: revert to a backup that
does not have the transaction password; or (possibly) utilize
Intuit's password removal service (I know they have such a
service for "file" passswords, I'm just guessing they could also
remove a "transaction" password).

[I don't know why you think the current "transaction" password
is the same as your old random "file" password; but if it is,
why can't you temporarily revert to a backup of Password Safe
(or possibly revert to an applicable System Restore Point ... I
have no knowledge of Passport Safe or how/where it stores its
passwords), get the old password, then return to the "present"
and use the old password.]

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