Re: Fidelity balance errors

Zaidy036 <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:04:03 -0500
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/31/2024 10:53 AM, Andrew wrote:
> On 1/29/2024 1:08 PM, JohnSmith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got two Fidelity IRA accounts that have the incorrect balance in
>> Quicken.  I do not know why this happened - but I would like to attempt
>> to delete (clear?) the accounts and redownload the data (from scratch?).
>>
>> Any guidance on how to proceed?
>>
>> TIA
> 
> You might (just might!) consider simply adjusting the opening balance of 
> the account to force a correct ending balance if you can not download 
> all your data.  This is a brute force method, and all balances up to the 
> current balance might not be correct, but at least all your transactions 
> will still be intact in the Q account.
> 
> Not the best solution, but something to think about.
> 
depends how many records involved. Compare the error balance in each 
account and you may have the answer "pop out" as obvious