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Re Download transactions from Vanguard

I have never used the download transactions feature for my Vanguard Account. I tried it today, and it came up with "Near Match" on several transactions. Rather than go through it all, I thought I would just delete all of the old transactions, then download the transactions again so that everything would be accurate.

Now Quicken 2005 tells me there are no new transactions to download. I have deleted the account, renamed the account, and still I can't download the transactions. Is there a file (cookie) that keeps track of the date of the last transaction that I can delete so that I can download the complete history? Any other suggestions? Thanks a lot.

Edward

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Edward
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The info about which transactions have been downloaded is maintained internally your Quicken file and/or it is tied to your Quicken file; generally, you can't re-download transactions to the same Quicken fileset. (Well, you should have been able to deactivate the account for transaction download, then reactivate it again ... but you would probably have gotten a lot more transactions than the ones you just deleted).

How many transactions are we talking about here? Why not just enter them manually?

(I have yet to find any use for a "Near Match" transaction: I always have to delete them; and sometimes I then must manually enter a transaction to account for the one I had to delete.)

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John Pollard

On Sat 15 Oct 2005 10:22:17a, Edward wrote in news:J894f.34204$0c.26505 @tornado.texas.rr.com:

You may want to (or not) restore your quicken file to the backup you did prior to the download. The same transactions will then be downloaded again.

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Mike L

It wasn't too many, and I could have done that in the time I've spent looking for how to do it the easy way. I just restored a back up from a week ago, and I'm trying it again. Thanks.

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Edward

near matches might result because of minor variation in price (more decimal places than necessary) or perhaps even in number of shares. Suggest you look at the total shares and make an adjusting entry. I have learned through many versions of quicken and downloads from various brokerages etc, that sometimes it is easiest to be reasonably close in history, absolutely on target for current share totals, and leave it be.

aaln

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Alan

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