"The transfer transaction is to an account that no longer exists in Quicken" error

Mike23

I've been having this problem recently for random transactions. I just noticed that it seems to have to do with when Quicken asks if I'd like to make the same categorization for similar transactions. The original transaction seems to work fine, but if I ask Quicken to auto-populate the other transactions with same category, those transactions don't work. To be clear, the category is a transfer to an other account. I guess I can just not use that functionality, but curious if others are having the same issue, as it might be a bug.

Quicken_Natalie

Hello All,

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to the Community.

I am also seeing this behavior in Quicken and have gone ahead and reported it. A Bug Ticket has been opened and our Teams will be working to investigate and resolve the issue.

There is currently no ETA on a resolution, however, I will be sure to post back with any updates as they become available.

Thank you,

Quicken Natalie

CTP-804

Quicken Francisco

Hello @Mike

Thank you for reaching out on the community and telling us about your issue. that is odd. I believe it'd likely have something to do with our memorized payee. Is it the same transaction each time that's causing the issue or does it vary sometimes? If it's the same one we may just need to see if we're able to edit the memorized payee. 

You can edit the memorized payee by going across the top to tools -> Memorized payee list. Right click on the payee and select edit. I would try changing the category to something different at first then try switching it back to the account it's being transferred to. Ideally it should recognize as an active account so you're not getting the message anymore.

Once you get a chance to try let us know how it goes!

Thanks,

Quicken Francisco

 

Mike23

I don't think it relates to memorized transactions. I just made two entries with payee of "Test" and no category. I went to the first one and entered the category, which is a transfer account. When I hit enter, it asks me if I want to "Update all categories for this payee?". If i say yes, the register shows the second transaction with the same category (transfer account), but if I try to go to matching transfer, I get the "The transfer transaction is to an account that no longer exists in Quicken" error. I've tried it using different transfer accounts and have the same problem. Any ideas?

UKR

Just for the record, what version, edition level and release of Quicken are you using?  Click Help / About Quicken (Mac: Quicken / About Quicken) to get this information.
What version of Windows or Mac OS are you using?

Mike23

Quicken Deluxe 2020 R26.23 Build 27.1.26.23

Mike23

Oh, and Windows 10

UKR

I must say that I haven't seen this situation before.
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Chris_QPW

Well the "Update all categories for this payee?" feature is quite new, and it seems that there is a bug in it when it comes to transfers.

I was able to reproduce the problem.

Rocket J Squirrel

I can reproduce it also. Manually over-typing the same transfer account in the Category field does not clear the error condition. I had to replace the transfer account twice to get it to work properly.

Mike23

Sounds like it’s a bug. Thanks for checking and replicating. To fix, I have to delete the category, save the transaction and then go back into the transaction and re-add the category. That seems to fix it. Guess I just won’t use that functionality until the bug get fixed. Speaking of, is there a proper way to report bugs or does Quicken monitor these boards?

Chris_QPW

@Mike The suggested way to report bugs is: Help -> Report a problem...

You might also want to contact Quicken support and reference this thread.
Contact Quicken Support

From what I know unless the thread gets a lot of activity I don't think that it will get reported as a bug by the moderators.

Chris_QPW

BTW I have used this feature for non transfers and it seems fine for that purpose.  Just need to stay away from using it for transfers until they get it fixed.

Quicken_Natalie

Hello All,

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to the Community.

I am also seeing this behavior in Quicken and have gone ahead and reported it. A Bug Ticket has been opened and our Teams will be working to investigate and resolve the issue.

There is currently no ETA on a resolution, however, I will be sure to post back with any updates as they become available.

Thank you,

Quicken Natalie

CTP-804

Mike23

Great, thanks all.

Quicken_Natalie

Hello All,

We appreciate everyone's patience while this was being worked on!

I am happy to announce that a fix for this has been deployed with the R28 release. 

Thank you,

Quicken Natalie