Validation Errors

Pilotbum

After having had a corrupt file that cost me a lot of time to rectify I run frequent validations of my data and occasionally it fixes various errors. Today I got this (and I've got similar messages before after validation):

QDF:
Validating your data.
Quicken repaired damaged transaction index.  No action required.
Quicken found an invalid transaction and removed it. "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900
Quicken repaired some transaction information.  No action required.
 "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900
Quicken found an invalid transaction and removed it. "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900
Quicken repaired some transaction information.  No action required.
 "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900
Quicken found an invalid transaction and removed it. "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900
Quicken repaired some transaction information.  No action required.
 "ACCT_115ea"  0/ 0/1900

Summary:
Quicken repaired 1 accounts.  No action required.


QEL:
No read errors.

QEL:
All internal consistency checks passed.

[Sat Jan 30 11:12:50 2021]

[Sat Jan 30 11:12:50 2021]
Analyzing securities.

Number of old style Buy/Cash investment transactions updated: 7/0
No out-of-range security references found.

Validation has completed.

Then my follow-up validation came up with this:

QDF:
Validating your data.
Repaired your data file by removing a damaged category. Please check your category list for missing categories by going to Tools>Category List.


QEL:
No read errors.

QEL:
All internal consistency checks passed.

[Sat Jan 30 11:31:54 2021]

[Sat Jan 30 11:31:54 2021]
Analyzing securities.

Number of old style Buy/Cash investment transactions updated: 7/0
No out-of-range security references found.

Validation has completed.

I've got errors like this before that says there was an invalid transaction that was removed, invalid category that was removed or something similar. Yet I've never noticed anything removed or missing. What exactly does this mean?

Furthermore, why can't the DATA_LOG tell me which account was affected?

markus1957

Usually, the account references you see are temporary accounts used during transaction downloads.  They should be flushed after transactions are accepted into the actual register. 

There is an ongoing bug that fails to flush these accounts.  It usually happens when partially accepting downloaded transactions in a register and then switching to another account register.  So far no one has reported actual data file corruption as a result of these strays but they are not helpful and a potential source of future problems.

Pilotbum

That's good to know... What about the category errors? Are those also temporary categories?

markus1957

The temp accounts have an associated transfer category so yes, they are also temps.

Pilotbum

Thank you, sir!