1. Home
  2. Quicken Personal Finance
  3. Lost my Transaction Password

Lost my Transaction Password

I thought the concept was one password to open Quicken and a second separate password to open the Password vault. I decided that in order to help my wife also use Quicken I'd change the first password to something a bit easier to remember than the randomly generated password that I was first using. So I changed it. But now all the accounts that I have set up are asking for a "Transaction Password" which appears to be the old randomly generated password that I no longer have written down anywhere. (I use a separate password application, Password Safe, to generate and store all my passwords on my computer and I deleted the random password and didn't save it anywhere.)

I can't edit the accounts, nor even delete them and start again, without that old password. What do I have to do at this point? Throw away the Qdata file? (I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2008 on Windows).

\Walter

Reply to
Walter_Slipperman
Loading thread data ...

I've used Quicken for over a decade, and never have seen a 'transaction password'

So I looked it up.

The transaction password is a feature that prompts for a password before changing transactions on or before a specific date. It is used primarily for archived files.

Do you use the password vault in Quicken? If so, and if you set that pw to something you remember, you should be able to obtain the 'transaction password' by looking in the vault.

Anyway, I HOPE you can.

Reply to
L

As Laura said, the "transaction password" controls access to "transactions" (more specifically, all transactions before a certain date).

I can only think of two ways you can get a transaction password assigned: you choose to assign one - even if by accident (both are accessed via "File > Passwords ... it would be easy enough to accidentally allow the set "transaction" password option to be selected and if you weren't paying attention, to create a transaction password when you did not want to); or you get some corruption in your data that causes Quicken to believe you created a transaction password.

In either case, if you can not come up with the actual transaction password (which would give you access to all transactions and also allow you to remove the transaction password), I think you have two choices: revert to a backup that does not have the transaction password; or (possibly) utilize Intuit's password removal service (I know they have such a service for "file" passswords, I'm just guessing they could also remove a "transaction" password).

[I don't know why you think the current "transaction" password is the same as your old random "file" password; but if it is, why can't you temporarily revert to a backup of Password Safe (or possibly revert to an applicable System Restore Point ... I have no knowledge of Passport Safe or how/where it stores its passwords), get the old password, then return to the "present" and use the old password.]
Reply to
John Pollard

BeanSmart website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.