Quicken 2012 Deluxe - Want to delete old records

Can anyone tell me how to delete old records in my QDF file? I've been using my current file for almost 20 years and am srarting to have corruption problems with older records.

Thanks in advance.

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jwmspam
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Hi, JWM.

I'm not sure I understand your question. After 22 years with Quicken, my QDF file is over 68 MB. (That would have been a huge file and a big problem back in 1990, but is no big deal nowadays.) I still have occasions when I need to look back and see what I paid for something. ($1,000 for an 80 MB SCSI HDD in 1996! :-[ ) And those old transactions are just as accessible as the ones from last week.

Over that many years, some corruption has occurred occasionally, but not recently. As I've upgraded almost every year, Quicken has updated the QDF file - and the former QEL, etc., files. I have more backup files than I need and delete some of them periodically, especially now that Quicken makes a new backup file every day. But I rarely, if ever in recent years, are there corruption problems.

By "old records in my QDF file", do you mean individual transactions in your checking accounts? Or transactions in closed accounts? Or purchases of stocks or other investments? What kinds of "records"? What kinds of "corruption"?

RC

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Can anyone tell me how to delete old records in my QDF file? I've been using my current file for almost 20 years and am srarting to have corruption problems with older records.

Thanks in advance.

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R. C. White

RC,

Thanks for the quick reply. Like you, I have upgraded almost every year and keep things current.

For the last couple of mionths, I have been having trouble with my checking account balance. When I do a monthly reconciliation to my paper statement, quicken shows a beginning balance that is not the same as last month's ending balance. It's done this 2 months in a row.

When I do a file validation, the report shows about 100 transactions from the mid 1990's that "appear to be damaged". I am assuming that this is causing me problems although now that I think about it, I didn't have the checking account with reconciliation problems in the mid 90's.

I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

John

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jwm1953

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