Auto-memorize new payees turned back on with latest update

Tominator

This setting is always off for me. Today I noticed that I was getting weird autofill garbage info as I went to accept downloaded transactions. For some reason, Quicken had turned auto-memorize back on. This created about 20 new weird payees (all Amazon). Reported as a bug via help menu

Chris_QPW

Yes, for some reason they fill that people that have had this setting off for decades now need it. I have seen though that if you turn it off, it does stay off. You should check both the automatic memorizing of payees, and automatic of categories.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7945741/curious-decision-to-enable-memorized-payee-and-announce-it

Tominator

Thanks Chris. Maybe they ran out of new features to "promote"? ;-)

BrewDog

Why did they do this, and how do I undo this? It probably cost me 3 hours to fix. What is wrong with these people?

Talltrees

Please turn off auto memorize

Chris_QPW

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20427368#Comment_20427368

Turn off:

Edit → Preferences → Data entry and QuickFill → Automatically memorize new payees

And depending on if you want it or not:

Edit → Preference → Downloaded transactions → Automatically categorize transactions

EDIT: check this one too, this is the one that renames a payee if none of your renaming rules kicks in and they have a "server entry" for that payee:

Edit → Preferences → Downloaded transactions → Automatically apply Quicken's suggested name to payee.