I know you all won't like this, but I am livid and have to report this problem.

skeleton567

I have a number of times suggested that Quicken has problems with data being shared between investment accounts. Here is the latest disaster that has happened to my data. The account labeled IRA recently had a mutual fund merger. We also owned the fund in other accounts which are in this file. The fund merger was recorded in the IRA using Mutual Fund Conversion as suggested and the account with the conversion actually reconciled to the end of the month the merger occurred. I am hoping to get this done without losing my historical returns and capital gains/losses.

Now when I look at the Account List, my other investment data is obviously very badly buggered.

1. The account named 401k Vanguard has had a 0.00 balance and no activity for about 15 years. Suddenly it is showing a balance over $200k.
2. The account named PAS Johnson should have a balance of roughly $120k, but shows a balance of over $65 million ( I wish! ).
3. Other accounts with $0.00 balances appear to be OK but none of them share the price history with the others which are buggered.

I have not checked the other accounts with balances, but they all look to be within reason.

I'll probably go pour myself a very large cocktail, and then start reloading backup files until I find one I can use to try again. Fortunately, I think the just happened today, and I have been backing up my file every hour or so as I work on it.

skeleton567

Finally got time to research this problem. In November 2009 I had Vanguard do an IRA rollover to my Fidelity account. This was recorded in the '401k Vanguard' Quicken ACCOUNT as a withdrawal ( stand-alone transaction in the register) which resulted in a ZERO balance. Two days later it was recorded as a deposit in the Fidelity IRA as a standalone deposit.

Now suddenly 15 years later the Vanguard withdrawal transaction is missing, the Vanguard ACCOUNT balance is EXACTLY DOUBLE the withdrawal amount, and the Fidelity account is reconciled to the penny.

And once again, the PAS Johnson account displays the correct balance.

Due to the nature of the changes to the data and the exact match of amounts, one can deduce this is not a hardware corruption but is an application or database corruption.