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Reconcile error after cleanup

Quicken 2001 Deluxe, Windows ME

My Quicken file has about 12 years of data. I reconcile accounts monthly. A few days ago I did lots of cleanup--used Find/Replace to recategorize many entries, deleted resulting unused categories, deleted never to be used again memorized transactions, and corrected many misspellings in memorized transactions and in the entered data.

I compared account totals both before and after and all looked fine. But today I tried to reconcile an account and up popped the Reconciliation Notice. I clicked Resolve and the earliest statement ending date appearing is 1/4/01 (but should be from 1995) and shows a Register Ending Balance of -$17,885.89. Of course the register has never had a negative balance and is in the $4000 range. Reconciliations for 2/1/01 and 3/1/01 also show discrepancies but no statements after that show discrepancies. None of the account entries appear unusual.

I tried Validate and Super Validate and no error showed.

Any ideas?

I could revert to the backup I made just before the cleanup and do a cleanup again. But, are there any gotchas in cleaning up as I have described?

Tom

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MrTom
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"MrTom"wrote

There was a bug, which I believe was present in Q2001, which caused reconciles to get out of whack when the category of a reconciled transaction was modified. I don't recall if it happened to every reconciled transaction that had its category changed, but it happened to some at least.

I believe the bug existed up through Q2003 (possibly Q2004); it is not present in Q2005. (But neither is "smart reconcile" which is the feature that offers the capability to "resolve" reconcile problems.)

Reverting to a backup sounds like it would be simpler than re-reconciling ... though you do not have to do one reconcile per paper statement, you could re-reconcile all the transactions in one reconcile.

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John Pollard

John,

Thanks for your response. I will go back to my backup and go through the exercise again, this time making and checking periodic backups along the way. Re-reconciling appears hopeless since I noted that some of the earlier register entries for the account in question had the first couple of characters of the payee missing, something I would not have done.

Tom J.

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MrTom

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