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Quicken 2008: Bugs Not Fixed from Previous Versions David A. Lessnau 09-01-2007
Posted by David A. Lessnau on September 1, 2007, 1:18 pm
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 Maybe a thread talking about bugs from previous versions not fixed in
Quicken 2008 will help people make purchasing decision. So, I'll start it
off with one I just noticed, myself.

From what I see from Google, it looks like it's been around since at least
Q04 and possibly Q03. Quicken seems to randomly blank out the Maturity Date
of CDs in the Security List and list them as 0/0/1900 in the Alerts Center.
Plus, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete these old Maturity Date
alerts. The specifics on my situation:

In the Alerts Center, the Show All tab only lists these type of alerts for
the period set on the Set Up tab (Investing | Maturity Date | Keep The Alert
In The List For). On the Set Up tab, I have 30 such alerts showing
(alphabetical by Security Name with no way to sort by Maturity Date). Only
7 of those are still active. The other 23 alerts are expired. Whether or
not I delete alerts from the Show All tab or just leave them to fall off as
their alert periods expire, the actual alerts don't seem to get removed from
the Set Up tab. I've even changed the Maturity Dates to blank for some of
them in the Security List and they still show up on the Set Up tab with
their original, expired, Maturity Dates. Well, at least until I click on
that alert, at which point Q08 faults and ends. When I return, the Maturity
Date in the Set Up tab is set to 0/0/1900. That Set Up tab currently shows
10 securities with that same 0/0/1900 date. I changed them to their proper
dates in the Security List and they seemed to be correct (though expired) in
the Alerts Center. But, after exiting and restarting Quicken, a random set
of them were reset back to 0/0/1900.


Posted by David A. Lessnau on September 15, 2007, 12:34 pm
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 J. Nelson mentioned this one in his review of Quicken 2008 Deluxe on Amazon
and I've confirmed it still exists. If you open the Categories list, find
_DivInc and click on the little page icon next to the category name (that
generates a report -- which took me a while to figure out), Quicken will pop
up a box saying "You have no transactions that use the selected category"
(even if you do). If you go to Edit | Find & Replace | Find/Replace and
search for the Category of _DivInc, it finds all the transactions without
trouble. According to J. Nelson, that problem has existed since at least
Quicken 2006.

Dave



> Maybe a thread talking about bugs from previous versions not fixed in
> Quicken 2008 will help people make purchasing decision. So, I'll start it
> off with one I just noticed, myself.
>
> From what I see from Google, it looks like it's been around since at least
> Q04 and possibly Q03. Quicken seems to randomly blank out the Maturity
> Date of CDs in the Security List and list them as 0/0/1900 in the Alerts
> Center. Plus, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete these old Maturity
> Date alerts. The specifics on my situation:
>
> In the Alerts Center, the Show All tab only lists these type of alerts for
> the period set on the Set Up tab (Investing | Maturity Date | Keep The
> Alert In The List For). On the Set Up tab, I have 30 such alerts showing
> (alphabetical by Security Name with no way to sort by Maturity Date).
> Only 7 of those are still active. The other 23 alerts are expired.
> Whether or not I delete alerts from the Show All tab or just leave them to
> fall off as their alert periods expire, the actual alerts don't seem to
> get removed from the Set Up tab. I've even changed the Maturity Dates to
> blank for some of them in the Security List and they still show up on the
> Set Up tab with their original, expired, Maturity Dates. Well, at least
> until I click on that alert, at which point Q08 faults and ends. When I
> return, the Maturity Date in the Set Up tab is set to 0/0/1900. That Set
> Up tab currently shows 10 securities with that same 0/0/1900 date. I
> changed them to their proper dates in the Security List and they seemed to
> be correct (though expired) in the Alerts Center. But, after exiting and
> restarting Quicken, a random set of them were reset back to 0/0/1900.
>


Posted by Stewart Berman on December 24, 2007, 3:34 pm
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Can I also add the new ones I've hit and reported to Intuit:

Business Reports No Longer Work
Intuit decided that categories only belong in business reports if they
are mapped to a tax line on Schedule C. This means you cannot use the
same category (i.e. Utilities) for both personal and business expenses
and separate them using classes (now tags).

Updates Are Unreliable
Schedule updates do not always run if the user is logged in but has
locked the machine. Scheduled updates will also lock on occasion
leaving the icon in the tray saying it is updating Quicken. Quicken
won't start because it says an update is running. The update status
report does not include all accounts updated.

Checks with transfers can create duplicate entries in the transfer
account.


Posted by Stewart Berman on January 1, 2008, 11:08 pm
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I posted this as an update to the bug report I filed with Intuit in
relation to the duplicate entries problem:

I have isolated the problem. It affects the first entry in a split.
If the first entry is a transfer then any time the status changes
(i.e. a check is printed, the reconciliation status is changed to C or
to R, etc.) Quicken makes another entry in the transfer account. If
the first line of the split is blank then the duplicate entries do not
occur.

This is a MAJOR bug.




>Can I also add the new ones I've hit and reported to Intuit:
>
>Business Reports No Longer Work
>Intuit decided that categories only belong in business reports if they
>are mapped to a tax line on Schedule C. This means you cannot use the
>same category (i.e. Utilities) for both personal and business expenses
>and separate them using classes (now tags).
>
>Updates Are Unreliable
>Schedule updates do not always run if the user is logged in but has
>locked the machine. Scheduled updates will also lock on occasion
>leaving the icon in the tray saying it is updating Quicken. Quicken
>won't start because it says an update is running. The update status
>report does not include all accounts updated.
>
>Checks with transfers can create duplicate entries in the transfer
>account.


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