Qel corruption

My quicken 2014 file is working correctly and the numbers all appear to be correct. But, because I had previously had problems my curiosity made me want to test it.

So, using Windows I made a copy of the qdf file into a separate folder, opened the copy in quicken and ran validate on it. I am not sure what the results mean. ........ QDF: Validating your data. No errors. ......... I breathed a sigh of relief, but then: ........ QEL: The old file was corrupt and only some of the data has been recivered.

QEL: All internal consistency checks passed.

But then it gave me about 10 stock splits which it said "might be missing".

And then 12 transactions that were "incorrectly categirized as a realized gain. If any of these should have been for a cover short salr, you should modify them. Listed: It lists them.

I am confused.

  1. What is a QEL file?
  2. Is it important?
  3. What should I do about the corrections the validate made? None of the account totals have changed.
Reply to
Jeff
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My quicken 2014 file is working correctly and the numbers all appear to be correct. But, because I had previously had problems my curiosity made me want to test it.

So, using Windows I made a copy of the qdf file into a separate folder, opened the copy in quicken and ran validate on it. I am not sure what the results mean. ........ QDF: Validating your data. No errors. ......... I breathed a sigh of relief, but then: ........ QEL: The old file was corrupt and only some of the data has been recivered.

QEL: All internal consistency checks passed.

But then it gave me about 10 stock splits which it said "might be missing".

And then 12 transactions that were "incorrectly categirized as a realized gain. If any of these should have been for a cover short salr, you should modify them. Listed: It lists them.

I am confused.

  1. What is a QEL file?
  2. Is it important?
  3. What should I do about the corrections the validate made? None of the account totals have changed.

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Prior to Q2010, your Quicken data was stored in multiple Windows files. See this knowledge base article:

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Starting with Q2010, Quicken now stores all your data in just one Windows file: the QDF file. But that QDF file is really a zipped file with all the previous Quicken files stored within. [You can use something like 7-Zip to unzip the QDF file into each of the individual files.]

I have forgotten the details, but basically the QPH file contains security price history and the QEL file contains information about online banking. The IDX file is some sort of index - when the files were separate Windows files, you could delete the IDX file and Quicken would just recreate it, so it's not primary data storage. If your QDF file contained attachments, I believe unzipping the QDF file would also produce an "Attach" folder.

Based on your description, you were not having any problems at the time you initiated the Validate. If you're still not experiencing any problems, I wouldn't do anything.

For the future: the preferred approach to Validating is to first make a Quicken Copy of your data, then Validate the Quicken Copy. That insures you have a "backup" to revert to (you can't have too many backups), and the Copy is said to remove logically, but not physically, deleted data from the file ... which sometimes helps resolve problems. Even if you decide to stay with the Validated Copy, I believe you should retain some sort of backup from prior to the Validate ... just in case.

Reply to
John Pollard

Thank you John. Good to hear from you! I hope you are doing well.

I'm having no problems and will leave well enough alone ignoring the validation.

Reply to
Jeff

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