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Speeding up Quicken Deluxe Jeff 07-04-2006
Posted by Jeff on July 4, 2006, 7:57 pm
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Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.

I download my transactions once a month from my broker and find that
"accepting" each of the downloaded transactions individually has become a
time consuming job. Everytime I accept a downloaded stock sale transaction,
Quicken seems to go into a calculation phase which takes a number of seconds
before letting me accept the next one.

Is there a way to speed this process up? In most spreadsheets there is a
way to tell it to not calculate the entire spreadsheet every a new entry is
made but only when you tell it to. Is there a similar setting in Quicken -
or anything else - that would speed things up?

As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
more RAM or a faster CPU?

Thanks.

Jeff



Posted by Hank Arnold on July 5, 2006, 3:50 am
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Usually, I get the opportunity to "Accept All". I then review things for
any editing required.

Regards,
Hank Arnold

Jeff wrote:
> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
>
> I download my transactions once a month from my broker and find that
> "accepting" each of the downloaded transactions individually has become a
> time consuming job. Everytime I accept a downloaded stock sale transaction,
> Quicken seems to go into a calculation phase which takes a number of seconds
> before letting me accept the next one.
>
> Is there a way to speed this process up? In most spreadsheets there is a
> way to tell it to not calculate the entire spreadsheet every a new entry is
> made but only when you tell it to. Is there a similar setting in Quicken -
> or anything else - that would speed things up?
>
> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
> more RAM or a faster CPU?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>
>

Posted by Jeff on July 5, 2006, 4:13 am
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I do that too, but "Accept All" does not accept the transactions that sell
shares which then have to be accepted individually, one at a time.

Jeff

> Usually, I get the opportunity to "Accept All". I then review things for
> any editing required.
>
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
>
> Jeff wrote:
>> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
>>
>> I download my transactions once a month from my broker and find that
>> "accepting" each of the downloaded transactions individually has become a
>> time consuming job. Everytime I accept a downloaded stock sale
>> transaction, Quicken seems to go into a calculation phase which takes a
>> number of seconds before letting me accept the next one.
>>
>> Is there a way to speed this process up? In most spreadsheets there is a
>> way to tell it to not calculate the entire spreadsheet every a new entry
>> is made but only when you tell it to. Is there a similar setting in
>> Quicken - or anything else - that would speed things up?
>>
>> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
>> more RAM or a faster CPU?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jeff



Posted by Hank Arnold on July 5, 2006, 4:57 am
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Really?? Wow! Sounds like you need to talk to the brokerage about their
downloads...

Regards,
Hank Arnold

Jeff wrote:
> I do that too, but "Accept All" does not accept the transactions that sell
> shares which then have to be accepted individually, one at a time.
>
> Jeff
>
>> Usually, I get the opportunity to "Accept All". I then review things for
>> any editing required.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hank Arnold
>>
>> Jeff wrote:
>>> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
>>>
>>> I download my transactions once a month from my broker and find that
>>> "accepting" each of the downloaded transactions individually has become a
>>> time consuming job. Everytime I accept a downloaded stock sale
>>> transaction, Quicken seems to go into a calculation phase which takes a
>>> number of seconds before letting me accept the next one.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to speed this process up? In most spreadsheets there is a
>>> way to tell it to not calculate the entire spreadsheet every a new entry
>>> is made but only when you tell it to. Is there a similar setting in
>>> Quicken - or anything else - that would speed things up?
>>>
>>> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
>>> more RAM or a faster CPU?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>
>

Posted by John Pollard on July 5, 2006, 7:51 am
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> Really?? Wow! Sounds like you need to talk to the brokerage
> about their downloads...

I'm pretty sure that is a Quicken feature; Quicken does not
assume which lots you want to sell, but requires you to tell it.
There is no way around it, but I have never found it burdensome;
it's still far less work than entering a Sell transaction from
scratch.



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