New transactions are defaulting to last date entered instead of today's date. (Q Mac)

ktscott

I am using Quicken Classic Deluxe for Mac - Version 7.5.2 (Build 705.51955.100) and I'm running macOS 13.6.3.

Recently, my system no longer defaults to today's date. Either a recent update or some other anomaly now makes my new transactions default to last date entered. I want new transactions to default to today's date and apparently this can be set in preferences but I do not have a preferences setting (that I can find) to reset this. The same goes for Data as of date which is also defaulting to date last entered instead of today's date. How do I change this?

jacobs

There is no preference/setting for the default date.

When you select an account inbox the left sidebar and create a new transaction in that register, it should default to today's date. If you change the date of that transaction to, say, February 1, and then create a new transaction in the same register, it all default to the same date (February 1) as the previous transaction. If you want to move around in dates, you can press + or - to advance or go back a day at a time, or press 't' to jump the date to today.

If you go to a different account register, the default date on a new transaction will again start as today's date.

Is that what you are seeing, or are you seeing something different? There is an occasional glitch a few people have reported where the default date for a new transaction s always some date in the past; if that's what you're experiencing, write back and we can delve into how to tory to get Quicken un-stuck from that date.