Getting Very Tired of Transactions Changing on a Whim

renfrochris

I would love to say this is a rare occurrence but I'm about at my limit putting up with transactions (most of which have already been reconciled) changing over time. This usually happens following an update which means if I want to prevent it from happening I either need to review years worth of transactions across a multitude of accounts to catch the changes (something I think everyone would agree is not feasible) or not update Quicken (equally ludicrous).

The latest issue has been with my pay check transactions. For whatever unknown, unintelligent reason the majority of my paycheck transactions (not all) between May 2017 and December 2022 where changed from having a split of:

to be a much more simplified version:

To get it back to the way I need it usually results in me having to pull out years of receipts/pay stubs, etc. and re-enter all of the transactions manually. Also, in this instance there doesn't appear to be a way to tell Quicken to revert to the more detailed format of paycheck which means I usually need to duplicate an existing paycheck, change the pasted date, change all the values to fit the paycheck, and save. It's very time consuming and frustrating.

Some of you refer me to simply restore from backup but the problem there relates to my first point and that is unless I catch the issue immediately when it happens months can go by before I realize there is an issue and I end up having to either re-enter past transactions or restore and re-enter current transactions.

Lastly for those recommending I repair my file I've done it consistently and repeatidley without any success.

I need some serous direction with this. I'm getting tired of fixing these issues and am at the end of my rope with Quicken. Is there something I can do to prevent this from happening? Is there something I can do to easily fix it when it does? In this specific instance if I need to reenter my transactions is there an easy way to convert the simplified split format to the more complicated one?

Quicken Kristina

Hello @renfrochris,

To clarify, when you say this happens after an update, do you mean after the Quicken program updates, or after running One Step Update? If you mean after the program updates, do you do the automatic updates through the Quicken program, or do you manually install the update patch?

Unfortunately, there is no tool in Quicken to convert Paycheck reminders back to Paycheck reminders if they somehow get changed to regular Income reminders. As you already mentioned, if you catch it fast enough (usually with in 90 days or sooner), then restoring a backup is the simplest option.

Is it only the Paycheck reminders that are changing, or are you also having issues with other transactions changing? Is this happening in only one account in your Quicken file, or are multiple accounts affected? Do you recall roughly when this issue first started? Do you keep your Quicken file directly on your local hard drive, or is it on a shared or network drive? Do you have your Quicken file synced with any cloud services, such as iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.?

I look forward to your response!