Need help scheduling transactions

Posted by Ron M on November 30, 2008, 3:47 pm

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Using Quicken 2006 Deluxe.

The problem started when I disconnected a thumb drive without using
Windows' "Safely Remove Hardware" application. The computer then would
not recognize all my external drives. Ran Registry Mechanic which
fixed that problem, but all the drives names except "C" were renamed
with differnt names.

I go through the Transaction Sceduling procedure, but none that I
schedule show in the Scheduled Transaction List.

Quicken is probably looking for a file that relates to the Scheduled
Transactions and can't find it. If that is true why can't I reschedule
now?

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks, Ron

Posted by R. C. White on November 30, 2008, 4:11 pm

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Hi, Ron.

I've never tried Registry Mechanic. The Disk Management utility is built
into every copy of Windows since Windows 2000 and it is THE tool for
managing hard disks - and other devices that may be assigned a "drive"
letter, such as USB flash drives, cameras and card readers, etc. DM can
reassign any drive letter except for the boot volume (which holds the
Windows directory tree) and the system partition (which holds the boot
manager and a few other files to start up the computer). In almost all
systems, both the boot volume and the system partition are on Drive C:.

In Disk Management, right-click on your thumb drive, then click Properties.
On the Policies tab, you can choose between optimizing for Quick removal or
Better performance. The Quick removal choice disables write caching, so
that all writes are performed immediately. This means that you can "pull
the plug" at any time without waiting for the system to flush the cache and
turn on the Safely Remove icon. For most of us, this is the correct choice
(and is now the default).

This won't solve your existing scheduling problem, but should prevent a
recurrence.

RC
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(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
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Microsoft Windows MVP
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> Using Quicken 2006 Deluxe.

> The problem started when I disconnected a thumb drive without using

> Windows' "Safely Remove Hardware" application. The computer then would

> not recognize all my external drives. Ran Registry Mechanic which

> fixed that problem, but all the drives names except "C" were renamed

> with differnt names.

> I go through the Transaction Sceduling procedure, but none that I

> schedule show in the Scheduled Transaction List.

> Quicken is probably looking for a file that relates to the Scheduled

> Transactions and can't find it. If that is true why can't I reschedule

> now?

> Your help will be appreciated.

> Thanks, Ron

Posted by Ron M on November 30, 2008, 4:50 pm

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Thanks RC for the prompt response and info. I will keep your message
for possible future use.

wrote:

>Hi, Ron.

>I've never tried Registry Mechanic. The Disk Management utility is built

>into every copy of Windows since Windows 2000 and it is THE tool for

>managing hard disks - and other devices that may be assigned a "drive"

>letter, such as USB flash drives, cameras and card readers, etc. DM can

>reassign any drive letter except for the boot volume (which holds the

>Windows directory tree) and the system partition (which holds the boot

>manager and a few other files to start up the computer). In almost all

>systems, both the boot volume and the system partition are on Drive C:.

>In Disk Management, right-click on your thumb drive, then click Properties.

>On the Policies tab, you can choose between optimizing for Quick removal or

>Better performance. The Quick removal choice disables write caching, so

>that all writes are performed immediately. This means that you can "pull

>the plug" at any time without waiting for the system to flush the cache and

>turn on the Safely Remove icon. For most of us, this is the correct choice

>(and is now the default).

>This won't solve your existing scheduling problem, but should prevent a

>recurrence.

>RC

Posted by John Pollard on December 1, 2008, 11:39 am

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Ron M wrote:

> Using Quicken 2006 Deluxe.

> The problem started when I disconnected a thumb drive without

> using

> Windows' "Safely Remove Hardware" application. The computer

> then would

> not recognize all my external drives. Ran Registry Mechanic

> which

> fixed that problem, but all the drives names except "C" were

> renamed

> with differnt names.

> I go through the Transaction Sceduling procedure, but none

> that I

> schedule show in the Scheduled Transaction List.

> Quicken is probably looking for a file that relates to the

> Scheduled Transactions and can't find it.

Possible I suppose, but I don't think it's likely.

[Did you install Quicken on your C: drive? And your Quicken
data was/is on what drive?]

I can only think of two possibilities: corrupted data, or
corrupted installation.

For corrupted data: make a Quicken Copy of your Quicken data,
then Validate the Copy. If the problem no longer exists in the
Validated Copy, make the Validated Copy your regular file.

For a corrupted installation: uninstall Quicken; remove any
folders with "Quicken" in their name (unless they contain your
Quicken data ... which should reside in a folder all its own).
Reinstall Quicken into a new folder; run the installation as
"THE" Administrator (as opposed to a Windows User with admin
rights).

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Posted by Ron M on December 1, 2008, 7:52 pm

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wrote:

>[Did you install Quicken on your C: drive? And your Quicken

>data was/is on what drive?]

Yes, Quicken is installed on my C: drive and the data is/was on a
thumb drive, G: Does this cause problems?

>I can only think of two possibilities: corrupted data, or

>corrupted installation.

>For corrupted data: make a Quicken Copy of your Quicken data,

>then Validate the Copy. If the problem no longer exists in the

>Validated Copy, make the Validated Copy your regular file.

The problem was corrupted data . . . thank you very much for
pointing me to the solution.

Ron