Comments on: Quicken 2007: How to Repair A Broken File

By: RGC

RGC — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:16:57 +0000

Your post was a life-saver! Spent hours trying to resolve this issue – like everyone else, very nervous about losing years of data. Thanks!

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:49:22 +0000

Thank you — same symptoms here, Quicken support recommended the QIF export/import that I knew would cost me hours of reconstruction of on-line accounts whereas I don’t care about past security prices. Thanks!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:01:35 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I also have data dating back to late 1999!

I have not been able to create Quick Reports by selecting a category for about a year now. In fact, every time I tried to access Categories, Quicken crashed. Rebuilding the data file by pressing Command + Option + B did not help. I’ve been walking on eggshells within Quicken for a year now.

This evening I trashed the Quotes file as you suggested (I do not have Quotes Detail folder). Now Quicken works like a charm.

I can’t thank you enough.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:29:40 +0000

thank you for this! as i read through your experience log, i mentally was saying “check, check, check” as you described exactly what I was experiencing. Thank you for this helpful play by play. I am back up and running again, and my heart rate has slowed to a somewhat normal rate. Thanks!!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:58:00 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!
I only have complete data back to 2000. I kept getting “unable to save price” error messages. Quicken web site doesn’t even mention that error message. aAn email to Quicken gave a solution to trash Quicken Preferences then do a download of the last five years stock data.

Do you think trashing preferences would also some how trash the quotes lists hidden in the package???

I identified with every angst and emotion in your note. Thanks for a solution and more thanks for showing me “the package”

Can’t thank you enough.

By: John C.

John C. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:37:11 +0000

Over on macintouch.com, Michael Schmitt describes a technique for identifying whether your Quicken Quotes file is approaching the failure limit (http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/applications/topic4065.html#d04dec2009). WIth 12+ years of daily quotes and 45+ years of sparse quotes, I am now very interested in this issue, and pass this on to encourage others to check their data files.

Adam, you have my complete sympathy.

By: sjm

sjm — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:33:57 +0000

Thank you for this.

My only “problem” was I couldn’t update stock prices without throwing the whole portfolio out of whack … even deleting some odd dates didn’t help (that had worked once before). I had been inputting manually, and even that started to “blow up”.

I used the “Show Package Contents” information and am now able to download stock prices again!

I’m continuing to work on exporting my 15 years of data to spreadsheets … just to be safe … and am contemplating starting a new data file … and just using my current Quicken for “research”.

It’s unfortunate that Intuit abandoned Quicken and the Mac version … and it’s unfortunate that the “new” release of 2010 is so limited in how it handles stocks.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:41:51 +0000

I hate Quicken, too.

Thanks for posting this. I felt your pain as I walked through your step by step update!

I’m hoping this post can serve as a bit of a talisman against losing my own close to 15 years of Quicken Data. Personally, I’m not holding my breath for Quicken 2010, but one can dream. Oh, and if it could possibly sync directly with Raymond James transactions (currently works only on PC) I would rethink the whole hatred thing.

Glad you got your file to work!