I'm using Quicken Basic 2007 on Windows. I have an account which contains a single mutual fund. It has monthly transactions dating back for several years. Until last spring, about the time I updated to Quicken 2007, the transactions had descriptions like "4.567 shares of Woohoo Fund @ 12.345". Then the description changed to "4.567 shares of SEC_1 @ 12.345". I thought it was a harmless annoyance until recently.
I sold off that fund completely. I tried to record this in Quicken by a Shares Sold transaction, transferring the resulting cash to a new account. When I click the box to sell all the shares in the account, it fills in a number which is much smaller than the actual total (which is shown at the bottom of the window). It turns out that this number is the total number of shares added in the "CTL_1" transactions. It can't sell the "Woohoo Fund" shares.
I tried a bunch of things. I filled in the correct number by hand, but it told me that I was creating a short position. I tried to edit the SEC_1 transactions to change the security name, but it wouldn't let me. I tried to add new transactions to replace the existing ones, but SEC_1 was the only choice for the security name. I ran a Sold Shares transaction for the amount it would let me sell, then tried to sell the rest, but it again told me I was selling short. It appears that the selling thingie just doesn't recognize the existence of most of the shares.
I reported this to Intuit by e-mail. Their response was that it must be a corrumpted data file. That doesn't seem likely, but I went through their file recovery and validation procedures. They didn't show any sign of corruption. I think it's a bug.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?