Price History

I know of no limit on the number of years of price history you can have in Quicken ... I have some prices older than 30 years. Five years is the limit of the age of prices that Quicken's historical price downloads will retrieve ... but I don't recall that ever having any effect on older prices already in the Quicken's price history.

Price history files can become corrupted, and corruption can cause strange behavior.

Your Quicken data is stored in multiple Windows files and the price history is in a file all its own. The nice thing about that is that if somehow your current price history file got trashed, you could replace it (and only it) with any backup of that specific Windows file ... losing only the prices since the backup was made, which are usually easy to recover.

If you don't make regular backups yourself, don't forget that Quicken does it for you. Look in the BACKUP folder, located in the folder where your Quicken data resides; you should find several backups with a single digit suffixed to the name. The ones with the number "1" as the suffix are the most current, and your price history is in the one with the ".qph" extension. You can just replace your current .qph file with a copy of the backup .qph file (you'd have to rename it as well, if you used the Quicken automatic backup with the numeric suffix) and be good to go ... assuming your backup was not also corrupted.

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Hi,

Quicken has a limit of 64K for each security. Means, that after 5-6 years the oldest price will be deleted. Assuming you have per date all columns filled and ~300 prices per year.....

Regards from Germany Rob

Another reason why it is OCD to download prices more than once a week.