A few of my many securities in a few different (Fidelity) accounts now have no prices associated with them. There is a little symbol where the current price usually is in the Port that says they have never been download...but they have of course. I have even told it to dowload the historical prices again. It will not let me enter a new price in manually. I have validated and rebuilt security transactions to no avail.
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"vodil" wrote
There was some event around April 20th that caused the original reports of this problem. It's not clear to me at this point whether there are some people who only now have realized that something happened, or whether there have been one, or more, new occurances of the same type problem.
You might want to check out the post from Intuit (and the link to a containment FAQ with a couple of workarounds) here:
Yes. that appears to be what happened and I did not notice on those securities.
Because it has been a month, I validated/repaired to delete prices and rebuild security transactions That worked but left some gaps. I tried the trick of exporting "security lists" from a good back and then reimporting them. Depsite taking many hours, that did not seem to work for a variety of things. For example all of my securities that don't have symbols (e.g. gold, savings bonds, collectables) still have not prices except the ones from the transactions.
Is there any way to export prices of specific securities from a good backup and then reimport them? I have a lot of hand entered information like that.
"vodil" wrote
Yes, that is the way Quicken works; you must have a ticker for any security you want to import prices for - the same ticker in the Quicken Security List and in the imported file. If you want to import prices, there's no way around this requirement.
That's not a deal breaker for securities that don't normally have tickers ... you can assign them dummy tickers as long as the ticker is unique in your Quicken file. Such tickers don't interfere with anything since you can't download prices for those securities anyway (and the dummy tickers don't interfere with prices downloaded from your financial institution either). Some time back, I assigned the CUSIP number as the ticker for my bonds.
If you've never had tickers assigned to some securities, I don't know of any less manual-labor intensive way to recover prices than exporting/importing using QIF. I don't believe there is any way to export/import prices for selected securities using a QIF file. If you have a backup from before you imported the QIF prices, you could revert to that, modify it to give all securities ticker symbols, then redo the QIF export/import.
You can "export" specific security prices (one security at a time) via the Security Detail View (Edit Price History dialog), to a tab-delimited file which Excel can read. In Excel, you can format those prices to agree with the Quicken specs (see Quicken Help) for importable price files, and create a comma delimited file of the prices. Then, with the Quicken "Portfolio" view open, you'd click File > File Import > Import security prices from CSV file".
I went and put (the same made up) symbols into both the backup and current file for the securities that needed them and then re-QIFed. Near as I can tell it is OK now. I did have to one-step update twice as it did not get everything the first time and it took forever to dowload too. A very annoying glitch they had. Thanks for helping
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