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Posted by Patrick Nolan on September 5, 2007, 12:45 am
Please log in for more thread options > Patrick Nolan wrote:
>> I'm using Quicken Basic 2007 on Windows. I have an account
>> which
>> contains a single mutual fund. It has monthly transactions
>> dating
>> back for several years. Until last spring, about the time I
>> updated
>> to Quicken 2007, the transactions had descriptions like "4.567
>> shares
>> of Woohoo Fund @ 12.345". Then the description changed to
>> "4.567
>> shares of SEC_1 @ 12.345". I thought it was a harmless
>> annoyance
>> until recently.
>>
>> I sold off that fund completely. I tried to record this in
>> Quicken
>> by a Shares Sold transaction, transferring the resulting cash
>> to a
>> new account. When I click the box to sell all the shares in
>> the
>> account, it fills in
>> a number which is much smaller than the actual total (which is
>> shown
>> at
>> the bottom of the window). It turns out that this number is
>> the total
>> number of shares added in the "CTL_1" transactions. It can't
>> sell the
>> "Woohoo Fund" shares.
>>
>> I tried a bunch of things. I filled in the correct number by
>> hand,
>> but
>> it told me that I was creating a short position. I tried to
>> edit the
>> SEC_1 transactions to change the security name, but it
>> wouldn't let
>> me.
>> I tried to add new transactions to replace the existing ones,
>> but
>> SEC_1 was the only choice for the security name. I ran a Sold
>> Shares
>> transaction for the amount it would let me sell, then tried to
>> sell
>> the rest, but it again told me I was selling short. It
>> appears that
>> the selling thingie just doesn't recognize the existence of
>> most of
>> the
>> shares.
>>
>> I reported this to Intuit by e-mail. Their response was that
>> it must
>> be a corrumpted data file. That doesn't seem likely, but I
>> went
>> through their file recovery and validation procedures. They
>> didn't
>> show any sign of corruption. I think it's a bug.
>>
>> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>
> I think the problem did stem from corruption ... but is
> aggravated by the use of a Single Mutual Fund account.
>
> Go to the Summary tab of the account and click "Yes" next to the
> Account Attribute named "Single Mutual Fund?" to change the
> account to be able to hold multiple securities.
>
> Then I suspect you can sell all shares of both securities in two
> separate transactions, or change the name of "SEC_1" to "Wahoo"
> in all the transactions where it occurs, then create one sell
> transaction for Wahoo.
>
Thanks. Your first solution did the job.
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