Mass Edit Memorized Payee List

Question

Does anyone know how to mass edit the Memorized Payee List? I want to clear all memo lines from my list, which is huge. Thanks.

Ovidiu · Answer

> @Sherlock said:
 > To clear all the memo lines, use the editor delete all the lines in the QIF file that begin with a capital M or E.

Thanks Sherlock! This was the most useful part for me.

For those that want to also clear the Tag column: it is not saved on its own line in QIF, but appended after the category (with a "/"). Still a lot easier to make the edit in a text file than in Quicken.

PS: The delete of all Memorized payees (I had ~1700) was quite slow (~3 minutes)! Like most Quicken operations unfortunately.

Also I ran into a couple of bugs (it's unbelievable how buggy Quicken is :(  ) :
 * list of accounts is exported even if you uncheck them
 * the Lock status of Memories Payees is NOT saved. You will lose the Locked attribute for all those that you have locked

*UPDATE: Major BUG:* After deleting and re-importing all all Memorized payees I see all of them. After I close and reopen the file I only see a dozen that I locked (the option to view only Locked is unchecked). Trying another export I only get the dozen that I see. I re-tried this 3 times. Same results.

Quicken Deluxe ver R42.8, build 27.1.42.8, Windows 10 Home

Sherlock · Answer

Sounds like you didn't delete the memorized payees from the Memorized Payee List before you imported the QIF file.

charliechi13 · Answer

It did not work for me. I was able to delete all the memo lines but when I reimported the QIF, the memorized payee list still has memos.

When importing the edited QIF, do I check only Memorized payee? Thanks.