association of security to account.

Hope someone can help this Quicken neophyte.

I've got a security that is show listed with the correct account but is also being shown in an incorrect account. I'm sure this is something I've done wrong at some point. How do I remove the security from the wrong account without loosing all the data for the security. The security shown in both accounts point to the same data in the security view.

TIA

Mickey

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Mickey
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Forgot to add I'm using 2003 version

Mickey

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Mickey
1) Take a backup 2) Delete the pertinent transactions from the incorrect account (this should not have ANY effect on the transactions in the correct account) 3) If you don't like the results, restore from the backup in item 1
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danbrown

That is basically what I was going to do but there are no transactions in the wrong account, just the security listing. Was hoping there was some easy, unknown to me, way to correct this problem.

Mickey

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Mickey

Please provide more detail about where you are seeing what you are seeing. What screen, what pane, what report ...? What view is selected? What date (range?) is selected? What sort sequence is selected?

What type account(s) are we talking about? Brokerage? 401k? Single Mutual Fund? IRA. How do you normally enter data in these accounts? Manually? Update wizard? Download?

How many shares does the wrong account say you own? How about the correct account?

What do you see if you create an Investment Transaction report, selecting the two accounts, the one security, for "all dates", subtotalled by Account?

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John Pollard

I see this error in the main screen for Investing Center, Portfolio view. The incorrect account is the first in the list of several accounts. When I click on the security's "+" symbol to shows the transactions, there are none. If I click on the security itself, it opens/goes to the security detail view that is established for this security in the correct account, NO duplicate security due to a typo.

I suspect that at some point I entered a transaction for the security in the "security view" and didn't pay attention to the account and the default first account in the list was "chosen". Apparently this established a link to the incorrect account. When the error was noted and an attempt to fix either by editing or deleting the transaction, the link to the incorrect account wasn't taken care of.

From looking at all the data from a historical standpoint this problem took place several yrs ago.

What I'm concerned with is if I just del the security from the incorrect account, all the data for the security will be deleted as well. I'm wanting to know if there is a way to break the link of this security with the wrong account without disturbing all the data for the security in the correct acount.

Mickey

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Mickey

Disclaimer: I have never used Q2003, it may work differently than any other version I have used.

One important question you did not answer is how many shares does Quicken indicate you hold in the incorrect account; it sounds very much like the number is zero. Also, you did not indicate that you ran a transaction report covering the two accounts, the security, and all dates. The idea is to see what transactions you entered in the incorrect account.

I think this would be impossible (see below).

As far as I know; you can not enter transactions for a security, or associate a security with an account, except by entering the transactions in the "register" for the account. There is no way to enter anything in the Security Detail View that would associate a security with an account. The list of transactions you see in the Security Detail View represents transactions actually entered in investment account registers: if you delete a transaction from its investment account register, it will no longer appear in the Security Detail View Transaction History. There is only one "view" of a specific security in the Security Detail View and that view includes all transactions currently in all investment account registers for that security.

Deleting a transaction from one account will not have any effect on any transactions in any other account. If you have two Buy transactions for the same security, one in Account A and the other in Account B, and you delete the Buy transaction from Account A, the Buy transaction will remain in Account B and Quicken will still show you owning the number of shares in that Buy transaction in Account B ... and none of the shares from the Buy transaction you deleted from Account A.

But, if you have no transactions in the incorrect account for the security in question, how do you propose to delete it? You can not (and do not want to) delete the security itself because there are transactions in Quicken for it. But if there are no transactions specifically in the incorrect account, I do not understand what you want to delete.

Perhaps you bought and sold the security in the incorrect account, and have told the Quicken Portfolio View to "Show Closed Lots". If that is the case, the "fix" is trivial; just uncheck the box to Show Closed Lots (Options > Customize this view in Q2005). Of course if you did buy and sell the security in the incorrect account, those transactions would also show in the Security Detail View. So I remain confused about what you did and what Quicken is actually indicating.

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John Pollard

Sorry, that's not how Q2005 works (you do not have go to "Customize this view"); but I think the check box was in "Customize this view" in earlier versions like Q2002.

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John Pollard

John,

You were getting way over my head on some of your requests but your suggestion about "show closed lots" did the trick.

Thanks

Mickey

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Mickey

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