Duplicate Saved Reports

In Quicken 2008 I customized and replaced a saved report which was created and saved many versions ago. I now have two of these reports in my saved reports list. How do I remove one without removing both?

Thanks, Chris Lightle

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Christopher Lightle
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"Christopher Lightle" wrote

I think one of us is confused. ;-)

I don't think '08 allows you to "replace" a modified report. I believe it forces you to save a new version, which has no effect on the original.

Either way, if you have 2 reports listed with similar names, they are different reports. You can remove (or modify) one without any impact on the other.

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Ken Abrams

After opening and modifying the original saved report I select save, the default name of the report to be saved is the original report name with a 1 added to the end. I remove the 1, select save, I am prompted to replace the report, and I select yes. Now in my saved reports list I have two saved reports with the exact same name. I open each report and both reports present the same information (as modified). I delete one report and both reports are deleted from my saved reports list.

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Christopher Lightle

Change your report preferences to "Customizing modifies current report or graph".

When your preferences tell Quicken to create a "new" report when you customize, then you tell Quicken to use the same name as an existing report ... Quicken gets confused. You are giving Quicken conflicting instructions; Quicken should catch the mistake and tell you it can't do what you ask ... but it doesn't.

If you truly need a "new"report, give it a "new" name.

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John Pollard

Change your report preferences to "Customizing modifies current report or graph".

When your preferences tell Quicken to create a "new" report when you customize, then you tell Quicken to use the same name as an existing report ... Quicken gets confused. You are giving Quicken conflicting instructions; Quicken should catch the mistake and tell you it can't do what you ask ... but it doesn't.

If you truly need a "new"report, give it a "new" name.

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John Pollard

"Christopher Lightle" wrote

The inescapable conclusion here is that you screwed up. ;-)

If it hurts when you do that, don't do it anymore!

See John's post.

You can have a new filename each time OR you can overwrite the old filename but you can't have it set one way and then try to FORCE it to do the other.

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Ken Abrams

I it is not a user problem it is just one of the many bugs in Quicken

2008.

If I create a new report and tell Quicken to save it with the same name as an existing report and Quicken warns me that I will replace the existing report and I say yes it is reasonable to expect that the new report will replace the old one.

BTW, if I give the report a new name Quicken can't f>Christ>>> "Christopher Lightle" wrote

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Stewart Berman

I don't have Q2006, but in Q2008 you would open "My Saved Reports" and click the "Manage Saved Reports" at the foot of the window.

In the resulting dialog, you can select a report, click "Move to folder", and select the folder to receive the report.

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John Pollard

I just did a test where I moved a report I created and saved from the report folder I created, to the "generic" Quicken saved reports folder: I didn't see any problem when I tried to display the resulting report.

That is: I saved a report in the default Quicken folder for saved reports and printed it with no problem; then I moved that saved report to a report folder I created, printed the report successfully; then moved the report from the folder I created, back to the default Quicken report folder, and printed the report again ... successfully.

Where did I not track what you did?

I'm not following the specific problem you are experiencing. Can you supply some additional information?

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John Pollard

For my previous posts, I used Q2008 Premier, R3.

This morning, I also tried the same thing in Q2007 Premier, R5 - and it worked there also.

[I don't have Q006 installed.]

Can you duplicate your problem in a New Quicken file?

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John Pollard

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