Quicken 2004 and following a stock

Upgraded to Quicken 2004 -- First-- Congrats on loading ---about 10 times
faster, than in 2003 version! But: tried to enter a stock that I wish to
track (BUT NOT IN MY PORTFOLIO (No position))!, and IT SHOWS both in my
watch list, and as a stock position in my portfolio! Have got around this
in the past, but EVERYTHING try,in this new version either leaves it in
portfolio (with 0 share balance!) , OR ELIMINATES it from my watch list
(deletes it! ) What I doing wrong??
Also had same problem when sold stock, but still wanted to track it in watch
list , just NOT IN PORTFOLIO! Jim

P.S., somehow, have written about 15-20 (over the years) .QDF files for
my finances on this computer , includeing backups . Know that the most
recent ones (the one driveing it, and the backup) are needed (one, other,
or both) but, will it hurt to delete those EXTRA files (suspect a few came
from trying out Money 2004( this bad enuff, that one, YUCK!) Thought Id
ask experts-- Jim


I Sent: Upgraded to Quicken 2004 -- First-- Congrats on loading ---about
10 times faster, than in 2003 version! But: tried to enter a stock that I wish
to track (BUT NOT IN MY PORTFOLIO (No position))!, and IT SHOWS both in my watch list, and as a stock position in my portfolio! Have got around this in the past, but EVERYTHING try,in this new version either leaves it in portfolio (with 0 share balance!) , OR ELIMINATES it from my watch list (deletes it! ) What I doing wrong?? Also had same problem when sold stock, but still wanted to track it in
watch list , just NOT IN PORTFOLIO! Jim

[John Pollard]

NN7K@reno.rmci.net wrote: P.S., somehow, have written about 15-20 (over the years) .QDF files for my finances on this computer , includeing backups .
Know that the most recent ones (the one driveing it, and the
backup) are needed (one, other, or both) but, will it hurt to delete
those EXTRA files (suspect a few came from trying out Money 2004(
this bad enuff, that one, YUCK!) Thought Id ask experts-- Jim

You can delete old Quicken data files, but deleting the QDF file
will not be enough. Quicken stores its data in several files
and if you don't want the backup from a certain date, you should
delete all the Quicken files for that date. If your main
Quicken data is stored in QDATA.QDF, you should look for all the
files whose name is QDATA.xxx (actually QDATA.Qxx is probably
more accurate) for the same date and delete them. The exact
number of such files differs depending on which version of
Quicken you use and which Quicken capabilities you have
utilized.

--
John Pollard
j underscore pollard at mindspring dot com
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[The Michael]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:58:51 -0700, <NN7K@reno.rmci.net> wrote:
P.S., somehow, have written about 15-20 (over the years) .QDF files formy finances on this computer , includeing backups . Know that the mostrecent ones (the one driveing it, and the backup) are needed (one, other,or both) but, will it hurt to delete those EXTRA files (suspect a few camefrom trying out Money 2004( this bad enuff, that one, YUCK!) Thought Idask experts-- Jim

Just keep your offline copies and get rid of the extra copies on your hard disk.
--
Mike

Thanks, to both about Duplicate Files. The OTHER problem ( about tracking
stock, but NOT placeing in portfolio ) and the one reported bug (even when
tell it , dont report this again), keep getting the overwrite warning of the
SAME NAMED FILE (use second hard drive for backup's) That warning is
REDUNDANT, as this IS MY BACKUP FILE-- dont need to be renotified EVERY TIME
I backup-- it is EXPECTED , PLANNED, and not a problem!!

Jim



"The Michael" <mike5005@ameritech.netSPAM> wrote in message
news:5alpkvcjhejpu16j9gbg3ondtp6cfv1p33@4ax.com... On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:58:51 -0700, <NN7K@reno.rmci.net> wrote:P.S., somehow, have written about 15-20 (over the years) .QDF files
formy finances on this computer , includeing backups . Know that the mostrecent ones (the one driveing it, and the backup) are needed (one,
other,or both) but, will it hurt to delete those EXTRA files (suspect a few
camefrom trying out Money 2004( this bad enuff, that one, YUCK!) Thought Idask experts-- Jim Just keep your offline copies and get rid of the extra copies on your hard
disk. -- Mike