NEW 7/13/21 Prompt to Enter Data File Password when No Password is Assigned
Found at: NEW 7/13/21 Prompt to Enter Data File Password when No Password is Assigned
On July 12 @ 16:00 user DrewJo (not the original poster) makes the following, totally factually unsupported and partially demonstrably false, statement.
"This is not a corrupted file. Corrupted files are inaccessible/contents not readable. This particular problem, according to Quicken support, is the result of a recent update (Windows subscription) pushed to our machines that locked the file with an unknown password and the only resolution is that users have to restore from a back-up made two months (prior to the update in question) presumably or to FTP the *.QDF file to Quicken for an attempt to unlock it."
When someone makes a demonstrably false statement - such as this one, "Corrupted files are inaccessible/contents not readable", they are lying. That statement has NEVER been true. A corrupted file MAY be inaccessible, but a corrupted file is NOT necessarily inaccessible.
Regarding this specific situation: if some non-displayable characters had been inadvertently/incorrectly inserted into the location where a password is stored (no matter how that occurred), that would constitute data corruption. It is NOT necessary that ALL (or even anything more than a small amount of) data in a file be corrupted in order for data corruption to have occurred.
Other than noting the lies and incompetence of such statements as noted above, I also submit that such statements, and the disgusting attitude that underlies them, do NOTHING to get any problem solved ... no matter what company (or product) is the brunt of the nastiness.
[For those that do not know me, I include the following (thoroughly disavowing any notion that any person's "resume" is a blank check to support any claim they make): I spent 48 years designing and writing software. I say that only to support the fact that I know what terms like "corrupted data" refer to - and that I have a lot of experience diagnosing software problems. That does not make me perfect, I do not think of myself as always being right, and nothing I say should be interpreted otherwise.]