Re: Another One Step Update Error - TD Ameritrade (Schwab)

On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 12:24:30 -0700 (PDT), John Pollard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 1:48:24?PM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 10:56:35 -0700 (PDT), John Pollard wrote:
>
>> >You can always make a "backup" by simply using 
>> >Windows Explorer to Copy your data file.
>
>> Yes, of course. Why didn't I think of that myself?
>
>> >I would do that now, putting the "backup" file in a safe place.
>
>> I will.
>> > 
>> >And if Quicken made a backup before doing its Validate(s), 
>> >I would save that somewhere too. 
>> > 
>> >Then I would use Help > Report a problem 
>> >to notify Quicken. Include your data file and 
>> >all your log files. Include a simple description 
>> >of the problem. 
>> >Do not expect, so do not wait for, an answer. 
>> > 
>> >The last resort I can think of is to 
>> >Restore the most recent backup from 
>> >a QDF file that did not experience the problem.
>
>> I didn't want to do that, but I suppose it's the only remaining 
>> alternative, so I guess I'll have to. I'll do it in a little while. 
>
>You can try to discover whether there is some corruption in the 
>backup file you intend to restore ... before you actually overwrite 
>your existing file.

Too late. I already did that--before reading my newsgroup messages.

Everything seems fine now, although I haven't done an OSU yet.

Today's a very busy day for me, but I'll try the OSU later.


>Copy the backup you want to restore to a separate folder with no 
>other files in it. 
>Then rename that file and remove the "-backup" from its 
>file extension. 
>You can then just open (not restore) the file in Quicken.
>Do a Validate and a SuperValidate, noting (and possibly saving) 
>each log file that Validate creates. See if there is any hint of 
>some corruption that might be present.


But I'll do that anyway, in a little while

.
>You can also test your new Schwab accounts in that file 
>(I would do that after the Validates) to see how things go.
>If there are problems, you can try to fix, or workaround, them ...
>or try the same thing with an earlier backup.