Category List Anomalies

dlessmann

I’ve noticed a few anomalies in the Category List in Quicken. First, there are several categories that were randomly added. They start with ACCT- followed by a four-digit alpha-code. (Refer to attachment Category List - Screenshot 1.) I have seen this before and deleted these categories, but something is causing them to come back. Can someone explain what is causing these random categories to appear and how to prevent it?

Next, and this one is more important, the first two categories under Tax are listed as Business Expenses rather than Personal Expenses. (Refer to attachment Category List – Screenshot 2.) When I try to change them to Personal Expenses, Personal Expenses is not on the list as an option. (Refer to attachment Category List – Screenshot 3.) When I try to create a new category group of Personal Expenses, I get an error message saying the group already exists. Can someone tell me how to setup Tax and Auto as Personal Expenses?

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UKR

The ACCT_xxxx or TEMP_xxxx are holdovers from several years back. During One Step Update, Quicken used to create temporary accounts for holding downloaded transaction data. Normally, those temporary accounts would go away after OSU completed. But if something went wrong during OSU, they were left behind, invisible … until Quicken programmers fixed the issue.

A more recent change in Quicken seems to have unearthed these leftovers, making them visible. You should be able to delete them from the Category List.
If you can't, run both Validate and Supervalidate on your Quicken data file. They should be gone afterwards, or they should be deletable now.