apparently the issue with Vanguard and direct connect has been resolved as I was able to change connection type just now and download transactions. However a problem occured, even though I linked to existing accounts all the securities have been replicated. I now have two identical securities in each account and securities will not let me delete them as they have transactions attached to them. Can anyone tell me how to clean this up? Thanks. If there was a method of avoiding this issue perhaps you could post it and prevent others from having this problem. Thanks.