Deleting memorized payee issue

Question

This is a recent issue for me, probably after one of the more current updates. When I delete a memorized payee (I have a long list), it deletes it, but instead of staying at the same place on the list like it usually did, it goes back to the first entry (A-Z). So, I must scroll down to where I left off. Very annoying. Anyone else experiencing this?  A fix?

Garygnu · Answer

I am having the exact same issue and it IS very annoying. For instance, 7-11 is at the top of my memorized payee list. I like to Ctrl + click on the items I wish to delete. Say I get down to the "L"s alphabetically and hit delete to remove the 15 payees I have selected thus far. The payees I've selected with be deleted, but the page reverts back to 7-11 at the top, and prevents me from continuing to select payees for deletion at the point where I left off in the "L"s. You are correct in that this is a relatively new issue that hadn't happened before in my 20 years of Quicken use.

StanleyK · Answer

Thanks for the responses. I am aware of the pruning feature, but I want to have more control over what specific  payees get deleted. So, I do it manually. As to renaming, I already do that. Those two good suggestions would appear to be just workarounds of the issue I am having, i.e., when I delete a payee manually, instead of the list staying in the same spot, it jumps back to the beginning. And this just started recently. It didn't do it before. So something changed in the Quicken software. I presume inadvertently.

UKR · Answer

In addition to the above pruning suggestion, you can, if you're not doing so already, set up and use Renaming Rules to avoid loading both your registers and your Memorized Payee List with meaningless payee names

(e.g., to get a single payee name = "Starbucks" instead of "POS TRANS 070124 STARBUCKS", "POS TRANS 070224 STARBUCKS", "POS TRANS 070324 STARBUCKS", etc., for your daily cup of coffee).

These Renaming Rules apply to new downloaded transactions only.

To clean up registers' existing transactions use Edit / Find/Replace.