Broken math in Quicken Classic Deluxe Personal & Business?

b.a.teller

After being unable to enter anything into Quicken for several years due to illness, I began entering data. Suddenly Quicken added about 9 million dollars to my total balance and I couldn't figure out where it was posted.

Many years ago, I recall hearing something about making changes in Quicken could 'break the math'. I just got a new Win 11 pc and had my data transferred. If I was to start a new account in Quicken beginning with the dates I missed, would those same errors occur or not? If they would, how do I go about setting up a new account in Quicken that will function properly?

I do not want my financial data online. Thank you

Jim_Harman

Entering transactions in Quicken, even ones from years ago, does not normally "break the math," and you should not have to start any new accounts.

To find this issue, I would start by looking in the Accounts bar on the left side of your screen. This shows the balance of each account. Find the account with the incorrect balance.

If it is a banking or credit card account, click on the Date header to make sure the register is sorted by date. Then scroll through the transactions to see where the balance goes wrong.

If it is an investing account, click on Holdings and adjust the "As of" date to find when the problem starts. Then return to the account's Transaction List (Register), sort it by date as above, and look for a problem transaction on that date.

splasher

To answer one of your questions, if you start a new account in new Quicken on a new computer, the download will only go back as far as the financial institution will provide and that is usually about 90 days, anything before that will have to be manually entered and the Opening Balance changed to reflect the earlier transactions.

If this is an investment account, it too will have limited history downloaded/imported and placeholders (one per security) will be created to account for the earlier transactions. You would then need to replace the placeholders with the actual transactions to make your records complete.

b.a.teller

To Jim Harman:

I've been ill for more than 5 years; my roof leaked 6 times; and my neatly stacked piles of documents got wet and were scattered all over the room by people sent in 'to help me'. All the credit accounts are messed up (my previous credit cards were stolen from a facility, closed, and the replacements hacked more than once), and don't show payments, so I have no way to know what, when, or where the problems began. I've asked some of the institutions to send me copies of statements going back 5 years so I have a way to start, but going back to 1992 is not feasible. Thanks anyway.

To Splasher:

I download only 3 accounts and I got 4 years from one (including from the stolen card(s) and another was a new card, so I got everything. The 3rd is Fidelity, so after I see what they download, I'll adjust from there. The other accounts are all entered manually, and some have been consolidated, so I'd planned to pick a date for when I think things went haywire and start there from my statements. I can't enter more than 5 years of data for all my accounts, most of which don't offer downloads because I'll probably be dead before then. Thanks anyway.

b.a.teller

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b.a.teller

Regarding beginning a new account,, is there any way to export-import transactions?