I've been using Quicken now since about 1998. Each year or two have made a "year end copy" of my file and keep the current year's transactions.
This year was a problem. The year end copy would not validate and got an error saying some data was lost. I don't see what was lost, and balance looks correct in the accounts. What's driving me nuts, though, is after every several uses of the program, my pin numbers are gone and I have to set them up in the Pin Vault again. NOW, Quicken downloads duplicates for almost EVERY register entry I have!
I would just as soon buy Quicken 2006 and start a brand new data file, just adding my account balances manually to start with.
My question is, what is involved starting from scratch setting up a new Quicken (in a different folder than my existing Quicken) and NOT just using an existing data file. I'll keep all my existing files, naturally, and access them with Quicken 2006 as necessary. But I want to start a completely new file from scratch, online access and all.
I do not remember my user ID for the bank, which was entered years ago when first setting up Quicken for online access. How much of a problem is it setting up with the bank? I seem to remember quite some time online to get everything to work. It should be easier, since I actually have access already, but would still have to setup the new file for bank access.
Thanks