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Help with download problem

Use BoA and have been downloading transactions into various versions of Quicken since downloading from banks became available. Currently using

2005 Deluxe ever since it came out and have not had any problems...until today.

I just noticed that 2 particular transactions entered in Quicken 2 weeks ago have not downloaded into my Quicken file although they appear correctly in my BoA online account history of transactions. I note that the BoA online postings have the identical amounts and dates of transactions as reflected in my Quicken postings. However, these 2 just will not download so that I can reconcile them -- they remain unreconciled.

I have tried deleting them and re-posting them, I have blanked out all fields except date and amount, etc., all to no avail. They simply won't download to Quicken. So, I have given up and decided to simply manualy reconcile them but I use auto-reconcile to the online balance and find that I will throw the balance off by the amount manually reconciled.

Since I have no way to force the proper downloading of these 2 rogue transactions into my Quicken, how can I manually reconcile them without throwing off the balance in my online reconcile window?

Reply to
PRNole
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I had a similar occurrence a couple of times. I gave up and manually entered the "c" to clear them and all has been fine since.

Reply to
CWGilley

Thanks! I did try the same thing but it threw off the online balance by the same amount as the cleared transax.

I know if I do it like this I can always go back and make an adjustment equal to the same amount, but I was wondering if there was a way to do this w/o having to enter an adjustment to the balance.

Reply to
PRNole

I have had this happen and it is my belief that once Quicken has downloaded (or thinks it has downloaded a transaction) it remembers this, regardless of what you do to that transaction in the register. I finally determined that there is a field in each transaction in the QFX file (Save to a file instead of using the Open option in your BofA screen) called which apparently Quicken uses internally to recognize new transactions. If I save to a file and then go in and change the value of this field with a text editor it will then be recognized as a new transaction. (You modify the file then double-click it to invoke Quicken to download it).

I, personally, don't like the way the download process maps BofA data into Quicken. Having programming experience, I do a Save out of BofA, run my own program to re-map the , , , and fields then shell out to Quicken to download the data.

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MikeH

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