You can't delete the account name from the category list

Question

Found a category which is just a "rectangle icon" (no text, just a small narrow rectangle is displayed). If I try to delete it, it first warns you that transactions exist which you the category. If you proceed to delete it anyways, you get the "can't delete account name" error (see screenshot). This is after I already did a "validate" on the quicken data file (which didn't show the "rectangle icon"). I also am not able to find the transactions which contain the "rectangle icon".

Chris_QPW · Answer

I'm not surprised that you can't delete from that place, you can't delete "transfers" at all.

One thing that you might look for in the Account list is an account with foreign/strange characters.  That might appear as a blank account name in some sections of Quicken.

The only other suggestion I have is to run Super Validate.  To do that just hold down the Shift key and do Validate & Repair the same way.

erick00 · Answer

I examined the "account list" and there is no "blank" or "[]" account name. I ran "validate file" more than once and the problem did not go away. I am running Quicken for Windows on an iMac under Vmware Fusion 12.2.3.

Rocket J Squirrel · Answer

That looks like data corruption. Some piece of code in Quicken thinks you have an account whose name is empty, which Quicken normally does not allow. I would try Validate & Repair and see whether it goes away.