I'm using Quicken 2005 on XP. I had a scheduled transaction for 3 monthly payments of $X, with the last payment scheduled for May 1, 2005. In June, Billminder told me I had another payment due, which eventually went to overdue status. It is now July and Billminder is telling me that I have one overdue payment for June and a payment due for July. This transaction is not in my scheduled transaction list. Any idea how I can get rid of it?
Thanks in advance.
Do you have more than one Quicken data fileset? Billminder keeps track of "reminders" for every Quicken data fileset on your pc; every time you open a Quicken data fileset, Quicken updates the reminders for Billminder for that fileset.
If Billminder is showing reminders for items that no longer exist in any Quicken fileset, find and rename the file QW.RMD. Run Quicken, exit Quicken, run Billminder and your "reminders" should be current with the fileset that Quicken last opened (if you later open other Quicken filesets, they will update QW.RMD as well).
John,
Thanks for your response. I don't have multiple data sets, but thought I'd try your idea anyway thinking that my reminders were simply hosed. I searched for QW.RMD and did not find one on my computer. I looked for QW*.* and didn't find any similarly named files.
If you have any other thoughts, I'd love to hear them. If it makes any difference, I was a little inaccurate about my Quicken rev (sorry). I'm running Quicken Premier 2005, and am at Rev 3.
Thanks for your help.
Hutch
In my experience, Billminder requires there be a QW.RMD in order to provide reminders (I believe this has been true since at least Q2002, and probably earlier); I have Q2005 deluxe, R3; I have Windows XP Pro SP2. I have QW.RMD in
Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Data
Perhaps you do not have access to that path or for some other os/setting-related reason (do you hide system folders/files?) are unable to see the file; but I know of no way that Billminder can display reminders without that file. In my limited testing, Quicken updates (or creates, if not already existing) QW.RMD every time I run Quicken.
Although my data files are elsewhere, I found QW.RMD on my PC at:
C:\Program Files\Quicken
I set search for entire C: drive. Hope this helps OP.
Jay
I'm pretty sure that the default for the %userprofile%\Application Data\ folder is "Hidden" and that you have to specify to serach hidden files and folders to find anything in there.
Thanks to all who are trying to help solve this mystery. I don't hide any files from view - system, hidden or otherwise. I did not have my search criteria set to look at hidden files and folders, but even after changing that setting it didn't find the QW.RMD file. But I COULD navigate to the file in my Docs-and-Settings folder (it did not exist in the Program Files\Quicken folder). If I then searched from the Intuit subfolder immediately above the folder where I found the file, or any folder going back up the folder structure, the search found the file!! Anyway...
I deleted the file, ran Quicken and exited Quicken. It created a new QW.RMD file that was smaller than the original. Initially it was 21K in size, but after closing Quicken it jumped to 33K (original was 37K). When I ran Billminder, the extra payments still showed up - one overdue and the other as currently due.
If anyone has any other ideas, I'm up for anything -- hopefully short of uninstalling and reinstalling the whole software package.
Thanks again to everyone for their help.
Hutch
John, PMJI but I've also had big problems with Billminder running on my Dell leptop (Win XP Pro, Q Premier '05). Besides displaying 1-2 transactions that weren't due, it locked up my touchpad (I was running it on the laptop at startup). I had to remove it from my system as a result. Have you seen anything like this? Any suggestions?
Also: It would be nice if Billminder were not only better behaved but would pop up with reminders of due payments even on a running machine (my desktop machine, also a Dell, runs all the time). Is that possible?
No. I don't use Billminder, so possibly I have been spared such things. I run it only to check on problems reported. I have run it on my Dell Inspiron 8500) laptop with Win XP Pro and Q2002, Q2004, Q2005 (deluxe), and never saw any problems with anything locking up.
Not from Quicken/Billminder, I don't think. But I don't see why you couldn't "schedule" (using Windows) billminder to run as many times a day as you wanted.
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