how to transfer all of my existing accounts to a new installation of Quicken

Quicken does allow us to delete all of the transactions in an account. For non-investment accounts, we may select all of transactions directlty in the register and right click to delete For investment accounts, we may select all the transactions in a transaction report and right-click to delete.

How about your backups? If you find your most recent non-corrupted backup, you can use that and play catch up with the most recent transactions.

Thanks, sounds reasonable, but how do I select all the non-investment trans actions that I want to delete? For transactions on a single 'page'/window, I can select the first tranacti on, then go to the bottom of the page, hold Shift down and click on the las t transaction that will highlight all the transactons on the page, but in t he case where I have 1000+ transactions, this can be very time consuming.

WRT the restoration from backups...well, different functionalities degraded over time....the last backup the 'worked' is a few months ago, and restori ng all the data from that point would be to time consuming compared to clos ing out the year and starting from scratch. John

Are you unable to use the register's vertical scroll bar? As an alternative, you can use Shift + Up/Down arrow on the keyboard extend the selected range.

Thank you...I didn't think about the scroll bar....(being really dumb!) So I tried the delete all of my 3500 entries in my check ledger (which is t ied to my bank account for online banking). I selected all the transaction s, right click - > delete...and for almost every entry, I get a message: Do you want to change the way the payment will be processed, or just change the way the payment will be displayed in your register? To only update yo ur register, choose OK, to change the way the payment is processed, choose Cancel, then cancel the payment instruction......

OK, now hitting update for 3000+ times is a little ridiculas....

Looks like my idea isn't going to work. So I'll ask the question again.....

Is there a way to export only my account information and my payee list to b e used by a clean install version of quicken? I *really* do not want to re-enter all my information and restoring from a 'good' backup will requir e lots of re-entering information.... Thanks J

Do all the transactions have "Send" in the "Check #" column or is this behavior part of the datafile corruption?

When we export a QIF file, we can limit the transactions by specifying a date range.