I've been using Quicken with any problems for five years. I am currently using Quicken 2005.
Today when I went to reconcile my credit card, transactions for the last five months appeared in the list of un-reconciled items. I looked at the credit card ledger and sure enough, the transactions for the last five months show "c" rather than "R" in the Clr column! All of the transactions are there, but the reconciliation information appears to have been lost. I opened a backup from last month and it correctly showed those items as having been reconciled.
I haven't a clue why this happened. I haven't changed anything on my computer, only open one data file, and have followed the same routine for the last five years. One thing I did do slightly differently this month (but I think I have in the past, too), was to make a payment from checking to my credit card as I am going out of the country and wasn't sure I'd pay my bill before I left, although I can't imagine how that could affect the reconciliation status.
Help? Ideas?
Thanks!
Steve
PS: If I end up needing to restore the backup from a month ago, will I have to manually enter the transactions? Is there a way to merge the two files?