Need to remove 50,000 placeholders from an IRA
Ed Duncan
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Need to remove 50,000 placeholders from an IRA account. when I try to "delete all" Quicken locks up and I have to reboot computer. Can anyone help? these placeholders date back to Nov 2017
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If you haven't
rebooted Windows since you installed the latest software update, please do so
now and then try Quicken again.
Still not working?
1) Let's try some "Troubleshooting 101" to
ensure the Quicken software is installed and updated properly.
What is the exact
release number for your version of Quicken?
If clicking on Help / About Quicken does not show one of the following you are
missing required software updates and, for older versions, possibly the
required Intuit ID to Quicken ID conversion:
Quicken US version:
-
2016 ... Release R 18.4 *, https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-2016-windows-release-notes-updates-and-mondo-patch
- 2017 ... Release R 18.6 *, https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-2017-windows-release-notes-updates-and-mondo-patch
- 2018 ... upgrades to 2019 when
installing the R 14.23 patch released 10/8/2018 or any later patch
- 2019 ... Release R 17.6 *, https://www.quicken.com/support/update-and-mondo-patch-20182019-release-quicken-windows-subscription-product
Quicken Canada
version:
-
2016 ... Release R 7 *, https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-2016-windows-release-notes-updates-and-mondo-patch
- 2017 ... all users should have been upgraded to 2018 already
- 2018 ... upgrades to 2019 when installing the R 15.24 patch or any later
patch
- 2019 ... Release R 16.16 *, https://www.quicken.com/support/update-and-mondo-patch-20182019-release-quicken-windows-subscription-product
( * minimum required
release number, may be higher, subject to change without notice)
Please do this even
if you are on the latest release already:
Locate the US or Canada Mondo Patch
file applicable to your version of Quicken in the links above.
Download it and save it to disk.
Open the Downloads folder. Right-click the downloaded patch file. Click
"Run as Administrator" to execute the installation program.
This will replace any Quicken software modules with a known consistent release
level and, hopefully, eliminate any software corruption or errors during
installation as a cause of this issue.
Reboot Windows when
done with the above and try Quicken again.
2) Validate
Validate your
Quicken data file. It may have become damaged over time or if you ever had
crashes, hang-ups or loops while running Quicken. Repeated crashes may
eventually render a data file "broken beyond repair".
Please run this
exact procedure, skipping no steps:
- Make a copy of
your data file: Click File / File Operations / Copy. Do not change any Copy Option settings. Save
file under a new name in same folder as current Quicken data file. (The Copy process appears to be performing a
record-by-record copy of the data file and not just a simple binary image copy.
This has been reported as recovering some otherwise not repairable
files)
- If Quicken reports an error creating the Copy file and you are using Q 2019
repeat the Copy process, but press and hold SHIFT and CTRL as you click File /
File Operations / Copy. When prompted "Ignore errors that prevent file
copy?" click "Yes". Note:
This may cause some data loss.
- Open the copied file in Quicken.
- Click File / File
Operations / Validate and Repair. Click "Validate File" and
"Rebuild investing lots", check to make sure the copied file is being
validated. If you suspect that a damaged Quotes Price History causes your
problems, also select "Delete investing price history". Click OK. Let it run.
- Fix any errors
logged as not repaired by Quicken.
- Click File / File
Operations. Press and hold SHIFT+CTRL as you click Validate and Repair. The
next popup should show "Supervalidate" somewhere in header or text.
Click "Supervalidate File", check to make sure the copied file is
being validated, click OK. Let it run. It might run for a while.
- Again fix any errors logged as not repaired by Quicken.
- Now close and
restart Quicken using this new file and try your failing action again. If it
works, keep using the new file and abandon the old one.
- If that doesn't
resolve the issue, you may have no recourse but to restore your Quicken data
file from a Manual or Automatic Backup taken prior to the problem first
occurring, if necessary going back to older backups until you find a file that
does not exhibit these symptoms.
https://www.quicken.com/support/how-backup-or-restore-your-quicken-data