Yes, I have Googled, and i know there are a lot of headaches associated with placeholders. But I didn't find apost that addresses my problem, so...
At the very end of last year, I started a new job. I created an account in Quicken ( 2008 Deluxe R9 ) for it, and the only way data has been entered into that account is via downloads from the FIs web site. Up until 4/1, all was well. I updated tonight, and I have a placeholder for each of the five funds I'm in, each for some minute fraction of a share, complaining that the amount of shares Quicken thinks I have and the number of shares the FI says I have are in slight disagreement. I do not see how this could even be possible, since there has never been any kind of manual entry... every item in this account in Quicken came from the FI.
1) How do I fix? There's a link to "Enter cost" which opens up a window listing transactions. WTF? Which one do I change? To what? How am I supposed to disagree with what I got from my FI?2) What needs to be done to stop this from happening? At first glance, it would appear that the FI is contradicting itself, but I think it's far more likely that Quicken is screwing this up by rounding things it's own special way, sort of like how Quicken is incapable of calculating the interest on a simple fixed-rate mortgage correctly and must be manually fixed each month.