Q2006 - File Validate Problems?

It's not clear from anything you have said that you have a real problem. Why did you Validate in the first place? Did the "problem" you attempted to solve, remain?

Try a super-Validate. Backup first.

See answers below.

I Validated because I was going through the Year-End procedures (Archiving older transactions) and Quicken would freeze and stop responding. I did finally leave it in the "not responding" mode for awhile and it did finally complete.

I did a super-Validate after the Validate and it did not indicate anything. I have been able to complete my Year-End routine.

****************************************************** Charliec

Ack!!! You most likely *do* have a database problem..... I'd do the following (as usual, make sure you do this on a copy of the db):

1) If you keep backups of the database, try going back and see if you can do a validate w/o errors. If you can, you might want to consider re-entering the newer transactions.

2) use the Q interface to make a copy of the database. This might possibly "fix" things. If *that* fail, then you *really* have a problem!

3) Try the "Super Validate" process. **DO NOT DO THIS ON THE ORIGINAL DB. DO IT ON A COPY!!!**. You will want to do a thorough comparison of the validated vs. the original.

It's my understanding that part of the Validate process can not complete when there are accounts enabled for online service. If that is involved in your problem, the only way out is to deactivating *all* accounts (though you might want to try deactivating just the one(s) that do online billpay, for starters) for online access ("transaction download" and "billpay"), then do your Validate. One risk is that when you re-enable those accounts for online access again, you may get some (many?) duplicate transactions downloaded. Another reason to test in a copy of your data first.

I'm not saying that's incorrect but I have validated & super validated with online activation enabled on all accounts & the validation process completed with no errors. Rich

Thanks Hank, Your item 2 of making a copy of the database apparently did the trick. Ofter the copy, I validated the copied database, and the validate completed normally with no errors. I compared the copied data to my original data and everything looks good.

I'm now using the copied database. Thanks again. Charlie

****************************************************** Charliec

That would not contradict anything I said.

If you have corruption related to online activities (generally, data stored in the .qel file), chances are you must disable your accounts before Quicken can fix the problems. If you don't have such corruption, no deactivation of online services is necessary to successfully validate.

Have never had any problems with validating. Usually do one after the Year-End Start A New File procedure. Will sometimes get a message about removing transactions not in the register, but no other errors. On-line status of activated accounts has never been even considered.

Tell me what a Super-Validate is.

There would be nothing to tell you that you would have gotten different results if you had deactivated before Validating.

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT from just before you click "Validate" until Quicken tells you it is super-validating.

Thank you. I appreciate the response.

OK, I see what you mean. I didn't catch the point before that the corruption preventing validation may be related to online downloading operations.

Rich

Phew!!! Always nice to hear good news!! Thanks for the feedback........