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Quicken 2008: Bugs Not Fixed from Previous Versions

Maybe a thread talking about bugs from previous versions not fixed in Quicken 2008 will help people make purchasing decision. So, I'll start it off with one I just noticed, myself.

From what I see from Google, it looks like it's been around since at least Q04 and possibly Q03. Quicken seems to randomly blank out the Maturity Date of CDs in the Security List and list them as 0/0/1900 in the Alerts Center. Plus, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete these old Maturity Date alerts. The specifics on my situation:

In the Alerts Center, the Show All tab only lists these type of alerts for the period set on the Set Up tab (Investing | Maturity Date | Keep The Alert In The List For). On the Set Up tab, I have 30 such alerts showing (alphabetical by Security Name with no way to sort by Maturity Date). Only

7 of those are still active. The other 23 alerts are expired. Whether or not I delete alerts from the Show All tab or just leave them to fall off as their alert periods expire, the actual alerts don't seem to get removed from the Set Up tab. I've even changed the Maturity Dates to blank for some of them in the Security List and they still show up on the Set Up tab with their original, expired, Maturity Dates. Well, at least until I click on that alert, at which point Q08 faults and ends. When I return, the Maturity Date in the Set Up tab is set to 0/0/1900. That Set Up tab currently shows 10 securities with that same 0/0/1900 date. I changed them to their proper dates in the Security List and they seemed to be correct (though expired) in the Alerts Center. But, after exiting and restarting Quicken, a random set of them were reset back to 0/0/1900.
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David A. Lessnau
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J. Nelson mentioned this one in his review of Quicken 2008 Deluxe on Amazon and I've confirmed it still exists. If you open the Categories list, find _DivInc and click on the little page icon next to the category name (that generates a report -- which took me a while to figure out), Quicken will pop up a box saying "You have no transactions that use the selected category" (even if you do). If you go to Edit | Find & Replace | Find/Replace and search for the Category of _DivInc, it finds all the transactions without trouble. According to J. Nelson, that problem has existed since at least Quicken 2006.

Dave

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David A. Lessnau

Can I also add the new ones I've hit and reported to Intuit:

Business Reports No Longer Work Intuit decided that categories only belong in business reports if they are mapped to a tax line on Schedule C. This means you cannot use the same category (i.e. Utilities) for both personal and business expenses and separate them using classes (now tags).

Updates Are Unreliable Schedule updates do not always run if the user is logged in but has locked the machine. Scheduled updates will also lock on occasion leaving the icon in the tray saying it is updating Quicken. Quicken won't start because it says an update is running. The update status report does not include all accounts updated.

Checks with transfers can create duplicate entries in the transfer account.

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Stewart Berman

I posted this as an update to the bug report I filed with Intuit in relation to the duplicate entries problem:

I have isolated the problem. It affects the first entry in a split. If the first entry is a transfer then any time the status changes (i.e. a check is printed, the reconciliation status is changed to C or to R, etc.) Quicken makes another entry in the transfer account. If the first line of the split is blank then the duplicate entries do not occur.

This is a MAJOR bug.

Stewart Berman wrote:

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Stewart Berman

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