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Conversion of data file from Windows to Mac problem

Don AwaltDon Awalt Member ✭✭✭
I am a Quicken Premier subscriber, and I tried to migrate from the latest Windows version to the latest Mac version. I did a super validate on my data file before I started, it was clean. The file has 30,406 transactions over about 13 years. The conversion appeared to go fine, I checked to logs and there was nothing much reported there. All my bank accounts had perfect balances. I have 22 mutual funds, and 14 of them had incorrect balances. While I can't say for sure, I *think* there may be only one problem - that sometimes BoughtX transactions convert properly, and sometimes they don't. 

When they work, I saw a BoughtX in Windows converted to two transactions, and Payment/Deposit and a Buy. When it did not work, there was just a Buy transaction, obviously throwing off the account balance. All, if not 99% of my Buy transactions came from the same bank account, so I am not sure why they work sometimes and many times they do not.

I also saw SoldX conversion errors in the same manner, I am not sure I saw any of these that worked properly.

I am not happy to just do a reconciling entry on the differences between the two versions of Quicken, because I don't know for sure if there are other errors that I have not yet seen, which would throw off reports, tax information, etc. I would like to see this conversion done properly with BoughtX/SoldX, and then I can see if all the balances match,

Now I have easily 200 of these transactions in Windows, so the old advice of "change those before you import" is not practical. If this is to going to be fixed I won't be using the Mac version. I would really like to do this, as soon I will not be using Windows at all, so if I can't use the Mac version I may have to find an alternative and not renew my subscription. Help!!

So my question is this - before I go any further in investigating the product, is this a known error that will be fixed? Thank you!

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