After upgrading q2004H&B to Q2006H&B:

Make sure the account and the securities are selected for the display/report. (On the Portfolio tab, every "View" has its own customization.)

Have you tried entering the new customer in the address book before you try entering an invoice for them?

I was going to also suggest exporting/deleting/importing your address book, but in my testing today (Q2004H&B), I have been unable to export the address book. I know it can be done, I have a couple of old .csv files sitting on my hard drive from previous exports ... but was unsuccessful this morning.

You can "print" the address book to a tab delimited file and Quicken will import a tab delimted file into the address book ... but I think you would have to be extremely careful about the formatting of the report and the subsequent import.

If planning to try this, I would definitely backup first.

It's one View for the entire portfolio, so I would assume that the options I've selected that allow me to see 5 year returns on one brokerage would apply to the other. Correct me if I've missed something. (if it matters, this is not a report. I just go to Portfolio). The view has been my customized view for years. Is it possible that Quicken is interpreting the length of time I've had this particular brokerage as the holding time for the securities within it? That would seem very illogical, but it's a little too coincidental to ignore that I'm just short of the 5 year mark with this brokerage. I transfered many long term holdings into it.

Yes. Same problem

I did export from Q2004H&B once to something, forget what, but it didn't show me anything. I suspect the ramifications of trying to delete the address book would stop me. Wouldn't Quicken balk at deleting any name currently referenced by an invoice? That would be my assumption, but I haven't tried it.

I haven't taken this further because of my suspicions that even if I could export/import, I wouldn't be able to successfully delete. I'm not sure that Quicken could relink an imported address book with the invoices that reference the clients. Again, I haven't tried this and definitely would backup first.

What about the file size, John? Is that dramatic reduction inthe QDF file betwen 2004 and 2006 to be expected?

jo

No. Each account can be selected to appear/not-appear in each Portfolio tab view. Customize the view (Options > Customize this view), and look in the account list.

You're saying that when you try to add a new name to the Address Book, you get a message saying that name is already in the Address Book?

Does the same thing happen if you add another type of name/address (Vendor, QuickFill, etc.)?

How many entries do you have in your Address Book. (Open the address book and display the "Group", "" ... the count is alongside the "" choice.)

Quicken doesn't seem to care.

I didn't test this, but you can. The names are going to be spelled the same, so it should be possible. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (I honestly don't place a high probabilty on it solving your problem, but if the results aren't satisfactory, you just revert to your backup.)

My conversion was from Q2005 (and Q2002, as well); I never even looked at the differences between file sizes, so I have no idea what to expect. I also never noticed any problems. I should add that I did not convert from, or to, a Home & Business version of Quicken: the main conversion was from Q2005 Deluxe to Q2006 Premier. I only have Q2004H&B around because I wanted to see if I could use a H&B version ... decided I didn't need it.

John,

You just gave me the incentive to solve a crippling problem in Quicken. I did export the address book to EXCEL and while I couldn't quite tell what the format was supposed to be, it was clear that there were things out of place. I cleaned it up, took a deep breath, deleted my address book (from a copy) and imported back. There was only one screwy entry, which I fixed. Then going for the gold: I made a new invoice for a non existant person and lo and behold, it saved properly. I am in heaven. This has messed up my billing so badly that people are annoyed, and I just haven't had the guts or time to experiment the way I used to. You didn't even think it would work, but it did. Obviously there was some corruption that Validate and Super Validate couldn't detect. Who knows what, and I don't care!

Now as to the other issues: In my Portfolio view, it isn't that one account is hidden or configured differently. All my accounts are in the View, but only one shows 5 year returns. Both of them show 1, and

Off the top of my head: only that maybe you haven't owned any securities in the account for 5 years ... or that the securities you have owned in that account for 5 years are not selected to appear in the view.

No, if you remember from my first description, I have had all the securities in question for more than 5 years, some even more then 10. All my securities from both brokerages are selected to appear in the view, or they wouldn't be showing their 1 and 3 year returns. It shouldn't matter that the securities in the brokerage that do show a 5 year return are mutual funds and the ones in the other brokerage are stocks,bonds, unit trusts, etc but that happens to be the case.

I can't think of any creative pattern that could cause this, so maybe I'll post it as a separate thread for all to contribute to.

jo

John Pollard wrote:

No, if you remember from my first description, I have had all the securities in question for more than 5 years, some even more then 10. All my securities from both brokerages are selected to appear in the view, or they wouldn't be showing their 1 and 3 year returns. It shouldn't matter that the securities in the brokerage that do show a 5 year return are mutual funds and the ones in the other brokerage are stocks,bonds, unit trusts, etc but that happens to be the case.

I can't think of any creative pattern that could cause this, so maybe I'll post it as a separate thread for all to contribute to.

jo

I assume you are talking about "Average Annual Return".

There is at least one reason why you might not see Average Annual Return for a security for which you have very old buy transactions.

If you have entered a corporate spinoff in Quicken, and kept the transactions that Quicken generated for that spinoff (which would include one buy transaction for each lot of the company doing the spinning off) those Quicken generated buy transactions may have very old dates, but they are not included in Average Annual Returns until the appropriate length of time following the spinoff; presumably because you did not really own those shares until the date of the spinoff.

You can also see the effect in a Net Worth report customized to show "Account Detail" with in interval of, say, "Year". You may have those buy transactions generated by the Corporate spinoff going back decades, but Quicken's Net Worth report will not show any value for the spun off company until the date of the spinoff.

As I said, I can't imagine that this is the explantion for all securities you hold at a single brokerage, but it can explain apparent "missing" Average Annual Returns for a spunoff security.

I have some spin offs, but those are a small part of the portfolio. ALL my securities show no 5 year avg annual return. I'm going to start a separate thread on this.