PAGING John Pollard Splits with 2009

Hi John,

I have upgraded from Quicken 2008 to Quicken 2009 deluxe, and now have a really strange problem. In my personal checking account I am entering an entry for a transfer to another account. I usually use transfer (under number) and with Quicken 2008 I was allowed to split and use categories of expenses instead of actually transferring to another account. With 2009, if I try to use transfer or EFT, and try to do a split the program gives me a quick launcher error message and shuts down. I created a new entry under number, and it still shuts down. It is really strange, I have been doing this with every version of Quicken prior to this without a problem. Clearly, 2009 expects you to choose an account to transfer to so I'm not able to use that. I am unclear why using EFT also causes the program to shut down when it looks like it will allow you to do splits to categories. Do you have any possible suggestions on how to approach this? Basically what I am doing is transferring money out of my personal account into our joint checking account. I have to separate accounts/files, one for personal and one for joint. I manually enter the deposit into the joint account, and for tracking purposes do a split on the entry that I use in my personal account. Hopefully, I've made it clear enough what I'm doing, and now what 2009 is going. I have run validate on the personal account. And I guess the question is where should I go from here, or what I do to go back to 2008. Many thanks in advance, Bob

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Robert L. Altic Jr.
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Hi John,

After I wrote this note, I started hav>Hi John,

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Robert L. Altic Jr.

Q2009 (Rental Property Manager, R2) does not exhibit that behavior for me. I can put TXFR or EFT in the Num field, and enter category in the Category field; and I can have multiple split lines in the transaction without regard to naming an account to transfer to. I suspect that it is not what you are putting in the Num column that is causing the problem.

Are you using Vista?

You took away my first choice of actions by doing a Validate; sorry that didn't work.

What happens if you create a "New" Quicken file, with minimum data, and try entering those same transactions in that New file?

There have been a couple of reports of your problem in the Quicken Forums; no one appears to know exactly what the cause is, but at least one user reported solving the problem by reinstalling Quicken. I believe the reinstall was to a new folder, and was followed by a Validate of a Quicken Copy of the date file.

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John Pollard

One of the users having your problem reported in the Quicken Forums that rebooting solved the problem ... for a short time; then it returned again.

If you were having a problem with another application as well, perhaps there is some connection. If possible, you might try not having any other software but Quicken running for a period of time. If the problem only occurs after some other software has run, there may be some interference from that other software.

If other software is interferring with the Quicken installation, it wouldn't be the first time.

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John Pollard

I should have added that when installing, you should right-click the installation .exe file and use "Run as" "Administrator".

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John Pollard

I am able in Q2009D to enter a transfer (TXFR) in a Checking Account that was split between categories and other Accounts (a credit card in my test).

Oilcan

-----Original Message----- From: Robert L. Altic Jr. [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net] Posted At: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:10 AM Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken Conversation: PAGING John Pollard Splits with 2009 Subject: Re: PAGING John Pollard Splits with 2009 FOLLOW UP

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