Year End problems again

What the hells is an INVEST file? Since you're not clear I'm gonna guess. It contains information about your investments.

Year End Copy and Copy work fine! They are designed not to remove investing data for good reason. Just because you don't understand it doesn't necessarily means it's broke.

Actually, assuming it's investment data, you do.

There's always the "open a new Quicken database and enter only the data you think you need into it by hand" option.

Since you've given me permission to figure I will - you're checking about was reconciled up to and past 2004 and you did a year end close for 2004. Quicken did as instructed and removed the data prior to 2004 leaving you confused.

As you've found out, Quicken simply will not delete investment records on its own. There's just no good way of allowing mass deletion, but ensuring things like cost base stay valid.

Your choices are:

1. Delete the transactions manually (not a task I would look forward to).
2. Start a new Quicken file.

My bet is the status quo is your best option. What's wrong with a 50Mb file? There should be lots of room on your hard drive.

Andrew,

Since Intuit has decided I need that data, should I get their permission to throw away my paper files?

Frank

Actually, it's the government that's saying that. Speak to them.

You can do whatever you want with your paper files...