Unable to delete security

Q2007 R4, WXP. I have a security shown as SEC_1 that I cannot delete. When I generate a report for transactions involving that security, it finds none. How can I delete it?

Q2007 R4, WXP. I have a security shown as SEC_1 that I cannot delete. When I generate a report for transactions involving that security, it finds none. How can I delete it?

Delete from all accounts that have held the security. Do a File>compact the folders. Somebody still has a handle on it.

Delete from all accounts that have held the security. Do a File>compact the folders. Somebody still has a handle on it.

I don't find File>compact. Do you mean Validate?

What happens exactly when you try to delete it?

Do you have any hidden Quicken investment accounts?

When I try to delete from the Securities tab, it gives me the usual message that I cannot delete it because it was used in a transaction. A Transaction Report can find no transaction in that security. No, I have no hidden accounts. The name, SEC_1, isn't the name of a real security, either. Validate hasn't helped either.

Yes, I know it's not the name of a real security. I believe the name was created by Quicken in either a Validate or a conversion, where the original name was corrupted.

If there are truly no transactions for SEC_1, I don't hold out a lot of hope for your being able to delete it ... unless you can revert to the version of Quicken (or the Quicken data set) where the original corruption existed. In most of the few cases involving SEC_1 that were "solved" that I have read about, there were still transactions existing involving SEC_1: deleting those transactions permitted the deleting of SEC_1.

Have you ever had transactions in your data for a security, then deleted all the transactions for that security. And when I say "deleted" transactions, I mean by deleting transactions individually, or by doing some "year end copy" or some such, which did a mass delete of transactions?

No, I have kept all transactions from way back. I "hide" the inactive securities. I guess I'll have to do that with SEC-1. Thanks for your help.