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401(k) transactions no longer BoughtX

Hello. Long time user, first time with a puzzling issue. I have been using Quicken for over 10 years and every time I downloaded my 401(k) transactions it always created a "BoughtX" transaction type and it didn't impact the the cash balance. Since ~ November when I download it is now creating regular "Bought" transactions and impacting the cash balance. I can't figure out what changed with the account and how I get back to how it was. Any thoughts?
One only thing that I can think of was I paid off a 401(k) Primary Residence loan early. Was there a setting that this switched that I need to reverse?
My account is with Vanguard if that helps narrow down the issue.
One only thing that I can think of was I paid off a 401(k) Primary Residence loan early. Was there a setting that this switched that I need to reverse?
My account is with Vanguard if that helps narrow down the issue.
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Hello @AZMike2021
Thank you for reaching out on the community and telling us about your issue. I do apologize for the issue you're having. That is odd that it would change after so long. A way to test if your theory is correct is we could try adding the accounts to a test file to see if they have similar issue. I'll leave steps down below.
Don't use any of these characters: * ? < > | " : \ / (asterisk, question mark, left and right-angle bracket, pipe, straight quotation marks, colon, BACKSLASH, FORWARD SLASH). Also, don't add the .qdf extension; Quicken does that for you.
After adding accounts, see if you are experiencing the same problems in this test file. Once you're able to let us know more we'll see what we can do.
Thanks,
Quicken Francisco
In my experience the way quicken reports categories is based on the financial institutions integration with quicken. Each do it their own way so have to adapt for each financial institution
Also on a side note I too have vanguard. It's always been a "Bought" transaction for me and I've always had to manually deposit the cash into the account