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Posted by John Pollard on January 6, 2008, 3:48 pm
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> I never bothered to modify the graph during 2007, as the info
> looked
> correct to me. Toward the end of 2007, I also had a large
> transfer
> between these same two accounts via my local checking account,
> and as
> you mention below, the transfers were a wash. That's why I'm
> confused
> as to why suddenly on 1/1/2008, with no changes to the graph,
> it's
> showing the full amount of the transfer as an expense (with
> all
> categories selected). Interestingly enough, even though the
> amount
> was transferred *twice*, the total "expense" is not doubled.
> As you say, when I start excluding categories is when the
> "expense"
> becomes "income" of the same amount. I even opened up a
> backup
> fileset from the end of 2007 and can see that the graph works
> as
> expected! These two transfers (one in 2007 and one in 2008)
> are
> identical. So why one is working and the other is not is a
> mystery.
>> I don't know how to debug the small graph; the best I can
>> suggest is to try to display the "Full Graph" and see if you
>> can
>> determine what is happening from there (with the Full Graph,
>> you
>> can also see the Report to look at individual categories and
>> drill down to individual transactions). [But trying to debug
>> the small graph using the full graph assumes that the Full
>> Graph
>> will be initially created with the exact same customizations
>> as
>> the small graph, an assumption I'm not certain is true.]
>
> Yes, I've tried this too, which is why I finally posted to the
> group,
> hoping that someone else had experienced this same phenomenon.
> Frankly, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't
> believe it!
> It's not like this graph is essential, but I do have Quicken
> open to
> this page, and I did find it useful. Oh well.
I just tried one quick test, with a small new file; downloaded
everything I could get from Discover card (transactions from
2003 thru 2007), manually entered several transactions for last
year and a couple for this year. Told the small graph to
display "Last 12 months": no data qualified! Changing to "Last
year" (nearly the exact same date range) appears to show the
effect of all the transactions (except the few for 2008, as
expected). So something strange is going on.
Sometime in the next few weeks I hope to get my Q2005 data very
clean for last year; then I can back it up and do a conversion
to Q2008. At that point, I should be able to clearly see
differences between the graph in Q2005 and Q2008. Maybe
something will jump out at me then.
--
John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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