Ya just gotta love it - "Fixed damaged category".

skeleton567

I developed software for 42 years before retiring. One of my pet peeves was always error messages that tell you nothing. Here is my latest from Quicken. I just ran a validation after doing some cleanup in one of my historical files named RQ1986 .

Quicken claims to have 'fixed' 18 'damaged' items in my Category List, but tells me no detail about what was wrong or what was changed. No before, no after, no nothin'. Just 'Check' my category list. See the following result:

[Sat Dec 09 14:10:26 2023]

File: "C:\Data\Quicken2014Data\RQ1986\RQ1986"

QDF:
Validating your data.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.
Fixed damaged category. Please check your category list by going to Tools>Category List.

QEL:
No read errors.

QEL:
All internal consistency checks passed.

[Sat Dec 09 14:10:27 2023]
Validation has completed.

So I open the Category list. What do I look for? What has been changed? How do I know if transactions have been re-categorized?