Moving entries from accidentally-closed to newly set up account: how long does 41 years take?

Question

My father accidentally “closed” his primary chequing account from within Quicken. No, that account at his bank is still perfectly fine.

It became very quickly apparent that in their infinite wisdom, Intuit made “re-opening” said account an impossibility. So there sits 41 years of information, all the way back to early 1984.

I went in and “created” a new account by connecting to his bank and confirming the account exists. But the data that got downloaded only went back about three months - far too little for him. So I did some research, and realized that I could either move over every transaction manually, by itself (yikes!), or I could select-all (from that three-month-old date on back to the very first one in 1984) and move everything en masse.

Now I know that 41 years worth of data isn’t going to go quickly. And it took most of the evening and into the early morning hours before I stopped getting alerts about removing reconciled flags. But Quicken has now been churning away on one core - I am assuming it isn’t multithreaded, because it is literally one core’s worth of power by a 32-bit program - for almost 20 hours now.

And this is a very recent system, with an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U 6-core, 12-thread CPU and 64Gb of RAM. Also Windows 11 24H2. So not a limp wrist by any means.

So my question is, how long will this process likely take? Or has Quicken rapidly painted itself into a corner, and got stuck permanently?

Because the data file is on a versioned system, I should be able to go back and pick the data file copy immediately prior to him closing the account. But this new account looks much better provisioned/documented within Quicken (at least, before I started the data transfer) and I would prefer to first see how it turns out. Only I don’t know how much longer I should be waiting before I should really be pulling the plug.

I have tried to attach an image of Quicken’s garbled UI, but I am getting an invalid CSRF token. Will try in a comment.

rekabis · Answer

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20530884#Comment_20530884

My question was one of estimated remaining processing time.

I have already specified that your suggestion will be my next step if processing refuses to complete.

RalphC · Answer

I would first try to restore a known-good backup from before the account got closed.

rekabis · Answer

Yeah, I get an error about an invalid CSRF token when trying to upload any image. Not sure why I am getting this error, none of my anti-adware, anti-malware, and anti-spyware browser add-ins should screw around with a properly configured website in that manner. I guess this protection is improperly implemented.

Suffice it to say, Quicken seems to be stuck mid-render between two different screens, with UI artifacts interlacing and interfering with each other. And when hovering over Quicken, all I get is the blue “I’m thinking” cursor, only the animation of that cursor is frozen as well (I can move the mouse around just fine). And because the UI is frozen, I cannot minimize or otherwise interact with the program, my only option will be to kill it mid-operation. And yes, my versioning system has been making note of continual writes to the data file, as new shadow copies occur every 15-20 minutes.