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How to Delete Old Investment Holdings?

Sue PhillipsSue Phillips Member ✭✭
edited March 2018 in

I've just migrated to Quicken Mac 2015 from a 20 year old Quicken file created in various versions.

It went fairly smoothly, but I am having trouble with old, outdated, no longer relevant investment buy and sell purchases in accounts long since transferred to others. I have reconciled my accounts so that I have the correct, current cash balance, but in the Portfolio view I am left with tag ends of old stocks showing up as currently in my Portfolio. So the Portfolio view is basically worthless.

I can find no way to delete these errant buys and sells. Any ideas?

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  • Unknown Member
    edited July 2016

    I just got done spending about 4 days moving from 2007 to 2015. In my case, all my cash/checking/credit card accounts came over in good shape, but my investment accounts were a mess. My solution was to delete all the investment accounts in a copy of the Q2007 file and transferring to Q2015 without them.

    This required going through each to-be-deleted account and changing and transfer transactions to/from accounts that would remain into non-transfer categorized transactions. Not doing so would have left a bunch of "unhooked" transfers which cause problems. It was very time consuming, but I got it done.

    In the process, I also deleted all my old closed checking and credit card accounts. If I ever need to see the history from those, I'll need to open the old Q2007 file and hope that Q2007 still runs (albeit without online connectivity).

    Then in the new Q2015 file, I recreated the investment accounts. In most cases I was able to download recent history from the financial institution. In some cases, I had to manually recreate the account portfolio using current values. In doing this, I lose the long history from Q2207 for financial accounts, but I rarely ever need it. And if I do need to research something, I can always go look it up in A2007.

    By the way, be sure to look over the log file that's created during the import. It will tell you if there are any disconnect transfer, conflicting categories, etc. Just go back to the Q2007 file and correct these, then do the import again from scratch. Eventually you should get a clean and well matched file.


    Bottom line: I suggest that you go back to your original file, delete you old accounts, fix the disconnected transfers and do the migration again. Check the log, clean up any errors in the old file and re-migrate. Lather rinse repeat.

    Good luck!
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