Bogus WFB transfers: how to delete?

I'm just taking a stab at this; not sure I have a good grasp of everthing your experiencing.

Knowing your Quicken version could be helpful.

First of all though: I believe that your original problem (lost download history) should normally have a simple solution. Your download history is stored in the Windows file QDATA.QEL (where QDATA is the name you have given to your Quicken data). If your process for transferring your Quicken data from one pc to another, somehow left that file out, you could see the results you report. Getting that file correctly transferred would be my first choice of "solutions". [For newer Quicken versions, you probably should have at least 3 Windows files: .QDF, .QEL and .QPH ... and maybe more. The .QDF file is the only "essential" file, the others will be recreated by Quicken as necessary ... but empty.]

If you can't recover the QEL file, post back to see if there might be another approach.

Q H&B 2009 (Vista x64 Ultimate 8GB) QDF is 36M; QPH is 25M

Got rid of QEL file and that did NOT get rid of the old transfers it wanted to send. They must be stored somewhere else. (I put the QEL file back as it appears to be right.) Anybody know where transfers are stored internally?

Supervalidating caused some backfilling and other minor things, but did not seem to change anything noticable..

Bottom line is that there pending transfers that do not appear in the register. It won't do them because they are past dated and I can't find any way to delete them.

I suggested replacing the QEL file with a QEL file from before you began having problems. Because the QEL file is where the record of the transactions you have downloaded is stored.

I started from the premise that simply "moving" your data from one pc to another can't produce the effects you describe ... something more (or less) must have happened during the process. Failure to include the QEL file in the "move" (for whatever reason), could be all, or part, of what "else" happened. It almost certainly would cause you to see transactions downloaded that had been downloaded before. I felt it also could be involved in the problem with the online transfers.

Vista's increased file access security could also play a role in this; my sense is that more people have problems with Quicken backups and restores using Vista than do with XP (including one, or more, members of the Quicken fileset not getting backed up, or restored, or being available after the restore). I'm still on XP, so I can only guess at what is happening. One thing I would avoid absolutely is to put the data in the Windows Program Files folder. I would get familiar with Vista file access rules and make sure I had my data where my Windows users was guaranteed access to it.

Bottom line (from my viewpoint): Intuit says that if a transfer request has been sent, you can not delete it from Quicken. Since correctable data corruption has been ruled out of the equation, that tells me that the best way to solve your problem (and likely the only way) is do what it takes to make sure your "move" results in the exact same file on the TO pc as you started with on the FROM pc. And that the Windows user on the TO pc has the exact same access to the Quicken data that the Windows user on the FROM pc has.

I should have added - just to cover all bases - that you should have the same release of Q2009 (most likely, R6) on both machines.

Both IRL and in the register the transfers are complete. Quicken keeps trying to send "post-dated" duplicate transfers and rightfully complains. If there were transfer requests in the register, I'd delete them as it wants, but there are not. Somewhere in one of the quicken files there are transfer requests it keeps trying to send. I can't beleive there is no way to rout them out.

I'd be happy to recover it the way you suggest, but the FROM PC is gone as it had a flaky motherboard and is being rebuilt. I have the backup data from it, but that is what I started with in the first place. Clearly it is not primarily the QEL file anyway because I started with an empty one and the transfer requests were still there trying to be sent. The transfer requests are somewhere else in the quicken fileset.

P.S. Gratuitious remarks about deprovements in Vista deleted since this is a family group.

Hi all,

In Quicken H&B 2009, I am trying to find and delete duplicate transactions resulting from transaction dowloads. My question is, is it possible to:

Thanks, Curt