I have a recurring problem that I am not sure what the cause of is.
I am seeing duplicated linked transactions. For example I send parts of my net pay to 3 different accounts. I enter the check into the main account with all the splits to account for insurance, tax and the like categorized and I have splits that are transfers to the subsidiary accounts.
I am seeing multiple entries in the subsidiary accounts. They are not independently deletable, as I get the "this is a transfer to a split and cannot be deleted here" warning box. If I use go to matching transaction, all the duplicates take me to the same linked master.
I've seen this multiple times now. This is a big, and old, data file (aside, what do folk do with data files when they get big? One of my checking accounts is about to wrap around since both my bank and Q seem to only handle 4 digit checks and I've written almost 10000 checks now in that account. Do folk start a new account? Archive data past a certain age?)
The last time it happened I manually repaired it by deleting the master transactions (there were only 2 or 3), deleting all the linked ones, and then reentering the master. But this time I got well over a dozen of them and reentering all those splits is daunting! Ack.
I am pretty sure it's data corruption because when it first appeared the subsidiary transactions had gibberish in the check number fields. (instead of EFT or check numbers or nothing, they had random letters and graphic symbols)
I've tried validate and super validate, and I've also tried doing a copy to a new data file to try to let Q clean things up.
I searched for posts that might describe this, I found some that were sort of close (duplicated download transactions, something I also get from time to time with one of my Amex accounts) but no one reporting duplicated splits.
Thanks for any assistance. I like Q but I find it frustrating...
Larry Pieniazek Quicken user since 1997 or so...
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