About three months ago I started using a new laptop with a new cloud account. I did something I found out later I shouldn't have. That was opening a saved file from the other PC. I understand Quicken Classic doesn't like that. Don't remember how I got the file to open on the new laptop but it did with one glaring problem. I now had two versions of the same checking account that now open in the accounts pane. However, the two accounts didn't contain the same data. One had data from when I began using Quicken (2018) up through when I began using the laptop the other had data from March of 2022 and was the only version of the two account versions that would update. Plus, the version that wouldn't update and had the oldest/original data had the red strike-through circle. Again, these two versions of the same checking account exist on the same laptop in the same instance of Quicken. Up to this moment, on the new laptop, all credit cards, the one checking account, a savings account and investment accounts were updating fine. Then I think I made a second mistake with Quicken.
I successfully updated all the accounts in Quicken this morning. I've been wanting to move the data from the checking account version that contained all the old/original data over to the other checking account version that updates correctly. I used "copy transactions" from the non-updating checking account version then "paste transactions" into the other checking account version. I was careful to ensure I only copied data from the older version with dates older than what is in the new version of the checking account. I did it increments rated that all data entries at once. No error messages. I checked and all transactions did copy over to the new checking account version that updates. So I had all transactions from 2018 to present. I then made a back-up to both the laptop and cloud, no error messages. Then exited Quicken, again, with no error messages. Here is the problem ............
Quicken will not open at all with the desktop icon. I tried to open it by double clicking on the backup files (on laptop and cloud). Quicken will not open that way either. Quicken will not open with any QDF file.
So ....any chance for recovery? Is it just an issue of Quicken corrupted coincidentally to my file editing? Is it a time for uninstall and reinstall of Quicken itself?
