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Posted by MrTom on August 14, 2007, 1:28 am
Please log in for more thread options John Pollard wrote:
> "MrTom"wrote
>> Quicken 2001 Deluxe, Windows ME
>>
>> My Quicken file has about 12 years of data. I reconcile
>> accounts monthly. A few days ago I did lots of cleanup--used
>> Find/Replace to recategorize many entries, deleted resulting
>> unused categories, deleted never to be used again memorized
>> transactions, and corrected many misspellings in memorized
>> transactions and in the entered data.
>>
>> I compared account totals both before and after and all looked
>> fine. But today I tried to reconcile an account and up popped
>> the Reconciliation Notice. I clicked Resolve and the earliest
>> statement ending date appearing is 1/4/01 (but should be from
>> 1995) and shows a Register Ending Balance of -$17,885.89. Of
>> course the register has never had a negative balance and is in
>> the $4000 range. Reconciliations for 2/1/01 and 3/1/01 also
>> show discrepancies but no statements after that show
>> discrepancies. None of the account entries appear unusual.
>>
>> I tried Validate and Super Validate and no error showed.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I could revert to the backup I made just before the cleanup
>> and do a cleanup again. But, are there any gotchas in cleaning
>> up as I have described?
>
> There was a bug, which I believe was present in Q2001, which
> caused reconciles to get out of whack when the category of a
> reconciled transaction was modified. I don't recall if it
> happened to every reconciled transaction that had its category
> changed, but it happened to some at least.
>
> I believe the bug existed up through Q2003 (possibly Q2004); it
> is not present in Q2005. (But neither is "smart reconcile"
> which is the feature that offers the capability to "resolve"
> reconcile problems.)
>
> Reverting to a backup sounds like it would be simpler than
> re-reconciling ... though you do not have to do one reconcile
> per paper statement, you could re-reconcile all the transactions
> in one reconcile.
>
John,
Thanks for your response. I will go back to my backup and go through
the exercise again, this time making and checking periodic backups along
the way. Re-reconciling appears hopeless since I noted that some of the
earlier register entries for the account in question had the first
couple of characters of the payee missing, something I would not have done.
Tom J.
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