Quicken 2018 R8.8 Release Notes

Pretty mjor update...
April 2018 Improved: File Validate and Repair: users encountering a small ?success? message on a white background after signing in can correct the problem by selecting File/File Operations/Validate & Repair while holding down the Control key, and then selecting the first checkbox. Improved: Quicken now remembers and auto-suggests the last-used email address in the "FROM" and "Subject" fields on emailed invoices and reports. Improved: Online bills now appear on the home tab calendar widget. Improved: File validate repairs 0:0 stock splits. Improved: Long term Capital Gains UI of Tax planner will now show scheduled transactions. Fixed: An issue where new bills were not showing up on the dashboard in some cases. Fixed: An issue where the Investment Transaction Report shows cash transactions even when the cash action is not selected. Fixed: Print budget did not respect certain customization options. Fixed: An issue when emailing invoices to multiple recipients with a space after the semicolon. Fixed: An issue where skipping a bill entered the transactions in the register in some cases. Fixed: An issue where ?Account Type? was not handled in some cases in the Add Account flow. Fixed: An issue where invoice reminders were not appearing in the combined Bills & Income view. Fixed: An issue where the Bills & Income reminders tab was not appearing in the register in some scenarios. Fixed: An issue where Paid and Upcoming bills were not appearing under the right dates in the stack view Fixed: Several UI / text issues and crashes. Fixed: An issue where reminder amounts were incorrectly displayed under the Projected Balances tab. Fixed: A performance issue when loading the category list. Fixed: An issue where the ?Include Paid? filter was not appearing under the Income & Transfers tab. Fixed: The wrong investment transaction was selected after using Update Cash Balance. Fixed: An issue where memorizing an investing transaction was not accessible when in "Standard" menu mode. Fixed: An issue where scroll bars were not visible on the home screen reminder widget. Fixed: An issue where account-related actions were not displayed when clicked on the accounts action button. Fixed: An issue where optional amount fields were treated as mandatory when reconciling Credit Card accounts. Fixed: An issue where account names & action buttons were truncated on pop up investment register. Fixed: An issue where long term capital gains were being displayed incorrectly in the tax planner in some cases. Fixed: An issue where matching a downloaded transaction to a transfer caused a broken link. Fixed: A sorting issue on the account list. Fixed: An issue where the security search field length was too short to display the appropriate characters. Fixed: An issue where entering two digit dates was not allowed on the reports custom date field. Fixed: An issue where Total Transactions & Amounts were incorrectly displayed in some scenarios under spending tab. Fixed: An issue where recurring reminders were not being created in the calendar view in some cases. Fixed: An issue where the ?Payments? column was truncated on the Vendor payments screen.

} Pretty mjor update... } } } April 2018
Indeed -- it seems to have broken Chase direct connect! I now get solid 301-A errors whenever I try to download transactions. And what's odd is that when I fired up Quicken this morning it didn't remember the Chase password! It prompted me for the password and refused to take the one I entered (said that the password cannot be more than 12 characters. BUT: at the chase website it says that the password can be 2-32 characters) I've spent a fair time on the phone with Chase and we cannot get Quicken to connect. I changed the password, deactivated and reactivated the account.. all to no avail. Has anyone else run into this? Is there some way to fix it? [and I can't remember if it was always this way, but it said the financial institution was is "zzz-Quicken Visa" -- I wonder if that changed [and that's why my password disappeared].]
[is there a brute-force was [web connect, file download?] I can try with chase while I try to sort out the direct connect problem?]
Thanks /B\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers 
bernie@fantasyfarm.com            Pearisburg, VA 

There's a couple of things you can try -
First is to look at the CONNLOG.TXT log file in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Quicken\Log and see if there's any clues there.
Second is to try a variation on the instructions here:
You might also find some clues here:
I see something about activating your Chase checking account first...

} There's a couple of things you can try - } } First is to look at the CONNLOG.TXT log file in } C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Quicken\Log } and see if there's any clues there.
I forgot about CONNLOG.TXT! {It's been so long since I needed to mess with it..:o)}
==== Mini-OSU Start (20180506/14:33:53) ==== 20180506 14:33:54: QFN: Beginning send to 20180506 14:33:54: QFN: End send to , netstatus 0 20180506 14:33:54: Marketing session sending to: 20180506 14:33:54: QFN: Beginning get from 20180506 14:33:55: QFN: End get from , netstatus 0 20180506 14:33:55: QFN: Beginning get from 20180506 14:33:55: ***QFN kQFFinished: returns 67305876 20180506 14:33:55: We?re sorry, but the application could not find an item on the server that it needs. Try again now, or wait and try later. 20180506 14:33:55: QFN: End get from , netstatus 15 20180506 14:33:55: QFN: Beginning send to 20180506 14:33:56: QFN: End send to , netstatus 0 20180506 14:33:56: Connectivity for this financial institution has been disabled. Please contact your Financial Institution customer support center for additional information. 20180506 14:33:56:
Chase no longer supports old versions of Quicken -- I wonder if the 8.8 update has messed up Quicken's reporting of which version it is?
/Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers 
bernie@fantasyfarm.com            Pearisburg, VA 

} } } Pretty mjor update...
} } April 2018 } } Indeed -- it seems to have broken Chase direct connect! I now get solid } 301-A errors whenever I try to download transactions.
Mystery solved. My Chase "freedom" credit card was originally a "quicken visa" card (that's why I got it! I don't have any other Chase accounts). A while back when they renewed my card it said "Chase Freedom" but there was no other problem so I ignored it. I got to thinking about it and tried the deactivate/reactivate dance, but this time I changed the institution. It used to be something like "zzz-quicken-visa" or something like that. This time I just selected "Chase" as the financial institution and it all worked: it reactivated and is now downloading just fine. No noticed about the change nor did any of the customer support folk mention it. But... at least I'm OK now.
/Bernie\

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Bernie Cosell                     Fantasy Farm Fibers 
bernie@fantasyfarm.com            Pearisburg, VA