Arnie Goetchius:
I've reported this error several times over the years since I upgraded to Q2004. It started for me with R3 and has continued to the present with Q2004 R5.
If you search this Usergroup, you will find similar errors back to at least Q2002. (I jumped from Q2001 to Q2004, so I cannot speak from experience). But interestingly, I cannot recall anyone complaining about memory read errors in Q2005 or Q2006. I have seen messages in this Usergroup stating that the newer versions just stopped. Maybe Intuit eliminated the error message?
I would doubt that it is a physical memory issue. Do you have this problem with other software? I don't, and I may have a dozen applications open at any one time.
I think it is a software bug that is harmless until you have either lots of data (I started using one of the early DOS versions, my transaction history goes back to 1990, and my investment history goes back to 1967 (a gift of stock which I still own), lots of accounts (some 100+, though most are closed), lots of investments over the years (but I usually stop keeping current price history on stuff I've dumped), or something similar which causes an internal table to expand to a size greater than the software engineer thought was necessary.
That's all I'm saying. But it would be interesting to hear a report in a few weeks if you in fact solved this issue.
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