Quicken 2006 upgrade continues trend of mostly reliable data management.
In what seems to have become an annual event, my latest upgrade to Quicken 2006 once again demonstrated the imperfect reliability of the programs data management functions.
Prior to the upgrade, I’ve seen cases of credit card accounts that required balance adjustment transactions where none should have been needed. I just don’t have the patience anymore to track down where the error originated. My experience has been that while it used to occasionally be my fault, back before downloaded transactions became available from most credit card issuers; it’s now most likely a bug in Quicken.
Following the upgrade to Quicken 2006, I once again ran “Super Validation” by holding control+shift down while selecting FileàFile OperationsàValidate. This turned up 8 records that “weren’t in my register” and were deleted.
But it didn’t fix the problem I was having with zombie scheduled transactions that were in my scheduled transactions list in Quicken but which my financial institution disowned knowing anything about (OL-359-A errors). After pushing my way past the brush-off attempt from Quicken online chat tech support, I learned this trick: Hold control down while selecting delete in the scheduled transactions list to delete it unilaterally. Warning! Doing so for a transaction that is still active at your financial institution will leave you with no easy way to delete their record of the transaction. You’ll have to call them to get it straightened out.