Need to know how to open Quicken without running Reminders?

EricMG

Need to know how to open Quicken without running Reminders? Trying to open old archive file and getting TONS of msgs about not being able to run rminder with old date.

GeoffG

Sadly, you cannot. This is a long standing issue that has never been addressed. It's extremely frustrating and gives one pause if they really want to review history.

GeoffG

Sadly, you cannot. This is a long standing issue that has never been addressed. It's extremely frustrating and gives one pause if they really want to review history.

EricMG

Bummer! The past cpl years I have gone into archive files immediately after creation and deleted all reminders to get around this issue. I can't imagine why I would care about them later - just account data. But now I want to see inside older files. :-(

Thanks for the quick reply Geoff.

mshiggins

You can trick Quicken by setting the date on your computer back to the date of the backup. Just be sure to set the computer date back to today's date when you are done.

Rocket J Squirrel

There's an open Idea to remedy this, but it's languishing like most Ideas. Might as well vote for it.

Allow disabling of reminders when restoring a backup

Rocket J Squirrel

Apr 20, 2020

Today I restored a month-old backup file. I ended up with about a dozen reminders (scheduled transactions) which had passed their due dates and Quicken wanted to execute them.

It is very difficult to work with multiple reminders; they must be deleted or ignored one at a time. Multiple selection is not allowed in the Bill and Income Reminders window.

My suggestion is this:

When restoring a backup file which has overdue reminders, prompt the user what to do about active reminders. I can think of several useful options

• "ignore [skip] all"
• "delete all"
• "do nothing" which would amount to leaving the overdue reminders as they are

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