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Problem With Downloading Investment Transactions

I am running Quicken 2004 and Windows 98. I have several mutual funds with the Vanguard Group all of them are IRAs. In Quicken each of these funds is managed as a seperate account. On a quarterly basis I download the transactions from Vanguard into a qfx file. Using Windows Explorer I then double click on the file, this then starts quicken which then loads the transactions into Quicken. I then open each account/fund and I am shown each transaction that has been downloaded for that account/fund. I then click on accept and the fund is updated. Except for my Windsor II fund. At the end of the last quarter the transactions were all additions to the fund but when I entered them it seemed to set up a sub account within the fund. It seems to me that everything between the transaction and the account did not match. On the portfolio view, under the Winsdor II listing there were now 2 entries. One for what was there prior to the transaction and a second showing the new share entered by the transaction. I had to delete the transaction and then enter it manually. I have now had a sale from that fund and several other funds. I followed the same procedure in Vanguard and Quicken. Now when I got to accept the sale, 240 shares, for the Winsdor II fund, which has a balance of 2234 shares, it wants to enter a short transaction. Again it seems like there is some kind of mismatch between the identifaction data of the fund and the transaction. I have looked wherever I can but obviously I have not looked everywhere. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks

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mike
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I keep each fund in Quicken as a seperate account. I think in the past I entered all the transactions manually. I started to download the transactions using the Q2 data. All the funds updated fine except for the Windsor II fund. This fund seemed to update the proper Quicken account but did it by creating a new security within the account. That is the transaction I deleted and then input manually. I now have a sale in that account. I downloaded the transaction and when I went to have Quicken accept it I was informed that a short sale would be created. This leads me to believe that Quicken is again wanting to set up a new security in the same account.

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mike

It sounds to me like Quicken already setup a new security (from your previous download) and it is intending to use the new security which you own no shares of. As far as I know, Quicken does not setup new securities on its own, it tells you it has a transaction for a security that you do not have in your Security List and asks you if you want to create a new security or match to an existing security.

You should not have any trouble determining if you now have two securities that are really the same; check your Security List. Delete the incorrect security, then Edit the correct one and uncheck the box "matched with online security", then try another download. Do *not* do an "Accept All", and if Quicken initiates a dialog about creating a new security or matching an existing one, choose the existing security from the drop down list.

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John Pollard

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