Expense categories only offer income categories to be selected when try to make the subcategories.

rmayerle0625

I am trying to adjust how I budget my rental expenses. To do this, I would like to make certain rental expense categories a subcategory of a new "budget" category I have created. That way I can just create a budget for the new category and not all of its subs. The issue is when I try to go and change the old rental expense categories from being expense categories to being a "subcategory of", I am only offered income categories in the drop-down list. There are no expense categories shown. I see all sorts of income categories, including both rental property income and personal income, but not a single expense category. Why would this be? It should either show only expense categories or all categories in my mind. Is this just a glitch, or am I missing something?

rmayerle0625

Sorry that title is horrendous. I should have checked it before posting...woops.

UKR

Can you show us image snapshots of what you have done so far and what you are trying to do?

You cannot (or should not) have a parent category with mixed income and expense subcategories.

I recommend staying with the default category groups of Rental Property Income and Rental Property Expense.

johnjelinek

I am having the same problem today.

UKR

johnjelinek said:

I am having the same problem today.

Can you show us? Create a screen snapshot, save it to a PNG, JPG or GIF file and then, using Windows File Explorer, drag and drop the file into your next comment on this webpage.

jayden

"Subcategory of" showing only income accounts, no expense accounts.

JBMDenver

where is the solution - I never get expenses either - only Income which somehow has changed recently

mshiggins

Try the suggestion in this post and read to the end of the thread.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20336532/#Comment_20336532

mshiggins

It's possible there is a way around the problem, but since none of my Quicken files has the problem, I can't verify whether this will work.

In the Category List, right-click the category you want to create a sub-category for. 

In the resulting dropdown menu, select "New subcategory". The "New Category" dialog will open with the parent-category-to-be already selected in the "Subcategory of" dropdown. Then you can just enter the name of the new sub-category in the Category Name field and click OK.

-JP

DJ mac

Same problem!

UKR

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20344017#Comment_20344017

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20337676#Comment_20337676

@DJ mac ,
have you followed the discussion above and tried the solutions posted within?
A “ghost account” named something like “ACCT_xxxx” (where xxxx is a decimal or hexadecimal number), once deleted from the Category List has resolved the issue for some users.

Have you recently validated and supervalidated your Quicken data file? If not, try it.

indianabridges

Having the same problem - this appears to have started in January

I was told by support that I had a corrupted data file with the usual answer to make a copy with only transactions and no customizations such as Reports / Memorized Payees / Scheduled Transactions

I am amazed that there is no way to make a clean copy of the data file with all customizations

I do have a work-around for this issue:

Create a top-level category as income
Create the subcategory as income
Edit the top-level category and change it to an expense category
Both the top-level and subcategory will change to expense

Give it a try - I tested the process this evening

gentaro_kun

> @UKR said:
> @DJ mac ,
> have you followed the discussion above and tried the solutions posted within?
> A “ghost account” named something like “ACCT_xxxx” (where xxxx is a decimal or hexadecimal number), once deleted from the Category List has resolved the issue for some users.
>
This worked for me. Thanks.

indianabridges

My thanks for suggesting checking for "ACCT_xxxx” as I had seen this correction posted and checked my database earlier; but there is no "ACCT_xxxx” to be removed.

I am still interested in why this has been reported as happening since only the end of January by multiple individuals. Not certain how all our databases became corrupted in such a relatively brief time.

I also had support validate and super validate my database with no errors indicated. But was then told that my database was corrupted. (I thought that the super validate would show an error if this were the case)

Cheers