This showed up today while doing an OSU…… It has never been there before today using this computer.
MOBILE & WEB has never been activated on this computer either.
Also the OSU was much slower today.
It's processing the data file that was downloaded from your financial institutions and applying that data to your various Q accounts.
Also, you DO have a Q cloud account, even if you don't use QWeb or QMobile. Q itself holds certain info there.
@NotACPA THX for your answer. So none of my downloaded data is saved to the cloud. What info does Q keep in the cloud when one doesn't use Web or Mobile?
Mostly validation of your subscription status.
@NotACPA Subscription status and what else?
We will never know. This is the kind of thing that Quicken Inc (and Intuit before them) never tells the user.
The truth is this whole thread of "answers" simply guesses. The only thing that we really know is that your data file is never "stand alone" even if you don't use any online services. There is always the a "Quicken Cloud dataset" that Quicken exchanges data with.
And I think the main reason this question has been asked is because you don't see that message every time you run One Step Update, which implies that it isn't in the main One Step Update flow for updating the transactions. I doubt that it is for the subscription either, that isn't something I would think would take much time and they probably wouldn't want to announce it anyways.
@Chris_QPW Will monitor for a few days to see if it shows with each OSU. Do you see the same thing?
No, I don't see it each time I update. I might have seen it every once in a while though.
I just did an OSU on my 2nd computer and same results. I watched the OSU closely as it was working and where my screenshot of this thread says "Complete" that is what it ends up saying. BUT during the OSU it quickly flashes"Updating bank accounts" then the next thing it quickly flashes "Updating your data" and finally says "Complete".
Mine starts with Waiting on all of these and then the processing message below, and then "complete". There is never another line shown.
Mine doesn't create another line either but the line starts with "Updating bank accounts" then changes to"Updating your data" and finally says "Complete".
So this line is just showing the steps the OSU is progressing through to completion.
My question has been mostly answered EXCEPT what Quicken stores in the cloud. THX all for chiming in….
OK, I misunderstood, I thought you meant a separate message. Which I have gotten from time to time.
On the subject of what is stored on in the Quicken Cloud dataset, I will speculate on one thing and say "most of your transactions" amount other things.
I base that on this.
For years now Quicken has been using the same "sync" as "Sync to Mobile/Web" to transfer the transactions down to Quicken. (flow: Quicken ←> Quicken Cloud dataset ←> Intuit ←> financial institution).
With "Sync to Mobile/Web" they start by sending about two years of your transaction data to the Quicken Cloud dataset and then from then on keep all of it unless you delete it. I would assume that they do the same with regular One Step Updates. The exception of course would be for Direct Connect and Web Connect since they don't flow through the Quicken Cloud dataset.
One has to assume that what you see in Quicken is stored there. As in financial institution, certainly. Account numbers? Well for most financial institutions, they don't send the full number, but if your financial institution does, then, yes. Take a look at the Cloud Sync file to get an idea of what is there.
You can delete it, but it will mess up your online connections and when you connect again it will just do it again, so basically about the only thing you might gain is removing transactions that are over two years old.
You delete your Quicken Cloud dataset by creating another data file and turn on Sync to Mobile/Web.
Once you do that you will see this:
Clicking that link gives you this dialog:
You can delete a dataset that isn't associated with the current data file.
VERY GOOD INFO …. UPDATE OF THIS REPLY BELOW….
Over the years I would create "Test Files" to see if an issue was tied to my good data file. After a lot of test files I would have to call tech support as the limit of number of files was reached. Files were deleted and I could make more test files.
UPDATE: WENT BACK TO MY BOOKMARKS and found this. https://www.quicken.com/support/how-edit-or-delete-your-cloud-datasets-quicken-windows/
It isn't "test files" that hit the limit, it is "datasets". Whenever you do a Restore, they get disconnect the dataset and create a new one. And wouldn't delete the old one until the user asks, and there was a limit on the number of datasets one data file could have. But yeah, that used to come up a lot in the threads. I haven't seen that in quite a while so maybe they have changed something on that.
Things may have changed since the last time I met the limit the tech shared my screen and guided me on what to click on until a list of files was showm. While he watched and said to click on and delete the files I no longer wanted. I clicked only on files named Test…. This left only files I did not want to delete. He said the limit was 120 files. May be different no???
