Editing multiple entries

beepyoyo

My broker transferred a large number of securities from one account to another. When I download the Quicken update for the source account I see that each security is listed as "Removed" but the listings do not show the securities as transferred to another account. Indeed, when I download the update for the target account, the securities are not listed as "Added." Is there a way, at one time, to edit multiple listings in the source account to reflect that the securities were transferred to another account? (That is, for each security in the source account I could edit the listing to show that the security is transferred to the target account but it will be extremely time consuming if I have to do this one-by-one.)

BK

There is not an exact way as you described. But there are two approaches of doing this: Batch Delete approach, or restoring from a backup prior to that update. I prefer the former approach and this is how I would do this:

In summary I would first delete the undesired 'Removed' transactions that were downloaded, and then manually recreate them using shares transferred between accounts.

Prep work:

• Preserve your backup prior to that update (rename it for example) so that it does not get overwritten
• Make a new backup of your current file - always

Step 1 - Batch Delete the undesired 'Removed' transactions in the source account as follows:

• Go to the upper right gear icon and select 'Edit Multiple Transactions'
• Select those specific 'Removed' transactions that you wanted to transfer
• Delete them > Done

The actions above put the source account in the state that it was prior to the undesired update.

Step 2 - Now you will manually transfer the shares as follows:

• Go to Enter Transactions > Shares Transferred Between Accounts
• Select the security to transfer and the target account > Enter/New (or Enter/Done)
• Repeat for each security that needs to be transferred

Not only this recreates the 'Removed' transactions in the source account, but also creates the 'Added' transactions in the target account, and you are done. If the result is not to your liking, refer to your backups.

P.S. I mentioned two approaches in the first line, so if you prefer to use the restore from a backup approach instead, find your latest backup "prior" to that download and Restore it. Then go to Step 2. The reason I am personally not fan of this approach is that when you restore from a backup, not only you lose latest downloads, but frequently some accounts will result in a CC-800 error where you have to deactivate and reconnect/reauthorize them.

Please let us know if this helped and add any comments or corrections.