Calculation Errors in Transaction Repports

I am using Quicken 2006 with Windows XP. I estimate that the total number of transactions in my Quicken database is about 2000.

I have just discovered an error in the way Quicken performs its calculations. The error shows up as a difference in the way it calculates "Category" reports and "Transaction" reports, and in the way that the overall balances at the ends of the reports are different. I have noticed this difference many, many times before. I finally decided to find out what was going on.

There were two errors in the reports, an error on 7/15/2005 and another on 12/10/2005. In both cases the Category report omitted a transaction that was properly included in the Transaction report. The omitted transaction in the 7/15/2005 Category report was an income transaction, for $0.02, and had a negative value. The omitted transaction on 7/15/2005 was a credit card transaction and had a positive value of $47.24. In both cases there were similar transactions on the same days that were handled properly.

I have been aware of this problem on many occasions. I conclude that the problem is frequently encountered. I've been following this newsgroup on a regular basis for the last 2 years and have seen absolutely nothing reported on it. What is going on?

Don J

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Don J
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I have not seen this particular problem ... but have seen several stange things before.

Backup your data files and try a Validate. If it does not work, try Super Validate. If that does not work then delete the problem transactions and re-enter them.

All this is a long about way to say that the problem is likely data corruption.

good luck peter

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Peter S

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