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Posted by BK on September 4, 2007, 11:04 pm
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On Sep 5, 10:59 am, darrell...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > darrell...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Attempting to reconcile my bank account this evening I discovered a
> > > very large discrepancy. Checking back through previous months I found
> > > that a CC payment from four months ago that had been recorded and
> > > reconciled was now missing. Re-entering this amount with the original
> > > date brought everything back into perfect balance. Each of the
> > > previous months back to that point had been balanced and all entries
> > > were marked as reconciled but this one entry had simply vanished.
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> > > It took only a little while to discover the missing entry but the fact
> > > that it could be missing is very disturbing. What can possibly have
> > > deleted just one line in one register causing all subsequent months to
> > > be out of balance although they had been correct before?
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> > > Darrell McDonald
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> > Is it possible you did a COPY and PASTE of a transaction? I've sometimes
> > noticed that occurs intermittently that when I do a COPY/PASTE, the original
> > transaction disappears. Just a thought; I always try to be careful when I
> > do this to ensure that the original transaction is still in the register.
> > This might be me doing something wrong, or one of Quicken's "quirks" I've
> > learned to live with. I wonder if others have noticed this?
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> > --
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Regards -
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> > - Andrew
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> Nope Andrew, this was no copy paste. The entry that vanished was one
> that had been made four months earlier at which time the register was
> reconciled and was in balance. The subsequent months had also been
> reconciled and were in balance until this item disappeared. To locate
> the error I worked backward until I found a month that agreed with the
> paper statements. I don't regard this as a "quirk" it is a very
> serious matter. Anything could vanish if this entry could. I will
> probably start looking for an alternative to Quicken.
I don't know if this is your situation, but I recently had the same
sort of problem - and it was due to my stupidity. Using Q H&B 2007
(Australian), I had downloaded and reconciled a CC account, including
a transfer from my cheque account to pay the balance. Later I
manually entered some data in the cheque account, including that
payment again to the CC account. Then, later again, when I was
reconciling the cheque account, I found the duplicated entry, and
deleted the transfer instead of the manual entry.
At least that's how I recall what caused the fun hours of chasing the
stuff-up!
Cheers,
BK
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