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Posted by Andrew on November 24, 2006, 5:50 pm

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Han wrote:

>> Han - no, as I said in my original append (maybe it wasn't clear?)

>> that I personally have never seen these in my Quicken data

>> directories. Until Lenny mentioned them in the first post in this

>> thread, I was unaware of their existence. Thus, my eagerness to

>> update and repost the doc that Jay referenced.

>> So, do *you* know why they might appear in your use of Q, since

>> apparently you have them?!

> I have no idea why I have the npc files. I use quicken for tracking

> investments (I download quotes just about daily). I use

> ONe-Step-Update for checking, savings and credit cards, and use it

> for paying a number of payees (mainly through Citibank). I make some

> reports every once in a while.

> The npc files seem to have a datestamp that recently recurs once a

> week, but why Tuesdays? And why did it start 6/24/2006?

My profile matches yours, Han with the exception that I don't use pay bills
(BillPay?) directly within Q. My local credit union has that, and I
manually enter the transactions in my checking register that ultimately get
reconciled. Interesting...

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Posted by Han on November 24, 2006, 9:48 pm

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> Han wrote:

>>> Han - no, as I said in my original append (maybe it wasn't clear?)

>>> that I personally have never seen these in my Quicken data

>>> directories. Until Lenny mentioned them in the first post in this

>>> thread, I was unaware of their existence. Thus, my eagerness to

>>> update and repost the doc that Jay referenced.

>>> So, do *you* know why they might appear in your use of Q, since

>>> apparently you have them?!

>>>

>> I have no idea why I have the npc files. I use quicken for tracking

>> investments (I download quotes just about daily). I use

>> ONe-Step-Update for checking, savings and credit cards, and use it

>> for paying a number of payees (mainly through Citibank). I make some

>> reports every once in a while.

>> The npc files seem to have a datestamp that recently recurs once a

>> week, but why Tuesdays? And why did it start 6/24/2006?

> My profile matches yours, Han with the exception that I don't use pay

> bills (BillPay?) directly within Q. My local credit union has that,

> and I manually enter the transactions in my checking register that

> ultimately get reconciled. Interesting...

As someone else had done, I deleted all the *.npc files on drive with
Quicken (leaving them for now on a backup drive). Quicken started
normally, I did a backup, and that didn't generate npc files either. So
maybe indeed the npc files are a relic of a previous version, and
(certainly now) are superfluous.

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Posted by John Pollard on November 26, 2006, 10:47 am

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"Andrew" wrote

> Han - no, as I said in my original append (maybe it wasn't

> clear?) that I personally have never seen these in my Quicken

> data directories. Until

> Lenny mentioned them in the first post in this thread, I was

> unaware of their existence. Thus, my eagerness to update and

> repost the doc that Jay referenced.

> So, do *you* know why they might appear in your use of Q,

> since apparently you have them?!

I have them too: Q2005 Deluxe, R5 (but they were around before I
updated to R5).

I did not do exhaustive testing, but the file seems to be
related to Online Billpay. It was not present when I created a
New Quicken file. It was not present when I added a new
checking account with online access but no billpay, and did a
download. But it appeared when I added a new checking account
with online access and billpay via Quicken. From that limited
testing it seems it might be a temporary file used when
downloading billpay transactions. (Actually the only time I
could get it created was when I first Activated the checking
account that had billpay, which downloaded some billpay
transactions. Deactivating and ReActivating the billpay
checking account - after deleting an online payee in Quicken -
did not cause the file to be recreated.)

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Posted by Andrew on November 26, 2006, 1:50 pm

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John Pollard wrote:

> "Andrew" wrote

>> Han - no, as I said in my original append (maybe it wasn't

>> clear?) that I personally have never seen these in my Quicken

>> data directories. Until

>> Lenny mentioned them in the first post in this thread, I was

>> unaware of their existence. Thus, my eagerness to update and

>> repost the doc that Jay referenced.

>> So, do *you* know why they might appear in your use of Q,

>> since apparently you have them?!

> I have them too: Q2005 Deluxe, R5 (but they were around before I

> updated to R5).

> I did not do exhaustive testing, but the file seems to be

> related to Online Billpay. It was not present when I created a

> New Quicken file. It was not present when I added a new

> checking account with online access but no billpay, and did a

> download. But it appeared when I added a new checking account

> with online access and billpay via Quicken. From that limited

> testing it seems it might be a temporary file used when

> downloading billpay transactions. (Actually the only time I

> could get it created was when I first Activated the checking

> account that had billpay, which downloaded some billpay

> transactions. Deactivating and ReActivating the billpay

> checking account - after deleting an online payee in Quicken -

> did not cause the file to be recreated.)

Thanks John - cool. As I mentioned in my post to Han at 550 PM yesterday,
the fact that I didn't use BillPay seemed to be the only difference (limited
info as it were) between his and my general usage of Q. So I'll add .npc to
my doc as a preseumed temporary file relating to BillBay/Downloading
transactions pending any further clarifications. Next time I post the doc,
it'll be there.

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Posted by Jay M Apple on November 26, 2006, 2:22 pm

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...and I better add that line to my saved text cheat-sheet. Thanks to all.
Again, what a great place this is to keep peace in home finances land.

Jay

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> So I'll add .npc to

> my doc as a preseumed temporary file relating to BillBay/Downloading

> transactions pending any further clarifications. Next time I post the

doc,

> it'll be there.

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> - Andrew