Realign investment holds

David Palmer
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edited January 2019 in Investing (Windows)
I am using Quicken for Windows, 2019, R 17.6, build 27.1.17.6 on Windows 10.  Years ago I grouped my retirement investments together in a single account which includes a number of mutual funds.  I did the same for non-retirement investments, other than those held by a broker (which were placed in an account for that broker and are fine), which account holds both mutual funds and individual stocks not filed with a broker (inherited).  Some time in the past, when upgrading Quicken, those two accounts were assigned to a financial institution, apparently at random, which has messed up all the transactions.  I realize my method was not good and now need to separate out mutual funds and single stocks, along with their transactions.  How do I do that?  

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  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
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  • David Palmer
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    edited January 2019
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  • David Palmer
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  • David Palmer
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    edited January 2019
    BTW, the share balance shown on all transactions in the two troublesome accounts is identical for all transactions and is a completely meaningless number.   The transaction list for the real brokerage account is completely different than for the two problematic accounts.  
  • Bob_L
    Bob_L Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    What type account is it, i.e. brokerage or single mutual fund?

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  • David Palmer
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    edited January 2019
  • David Palmer
    David Palmer Member ✭✭
    edited January 2019
    BTW, these two accounts have not always had this problem.  In the past, they worked as I thought they should and as the 'real' brokerage account ' did.  I do not know when the behavior changed.  
  • Jim_Harman
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  • Bob_L
    Bob_L Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    Sounds like corruption to me. Have you tried File, File operations, Validate and repair, rebuild investing lots. Backup first

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  • David Palmer
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    edited January 2019
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  • David Palmer
    David Palmer Member ✭✭
    edited January 2019
    Having gotten this far, perhaps I have better learned how to express my original question.  Is it possible to move securities from one account to another, including moving all transactions for that security, without having to move the transactions one at a time?
  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    Yes, you would use the Shares transferred between accounts action to do that. This will create one Remove transaction for each security you currently hold in the old account and one Add in the new account for each tax lot of each security. The transaction history remains in the old account.



    We have not recommended that yet because it appears that there is something serious wrong with your data and moving your holdings around will probably not fix that.



    If you want to try it, be sure to back up your data file first in case you do not like the result.
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