Thank you for your time and interest.

rparker:

Thanks for your comments.

"iiimaf, Are you the Quicken rah rah cheerleader?"

No, I'm not.  I'm just a bit more realistic than so many of the people who don't seem to understand that things sometimes breakdown in the real world.

I guess Quicken is really missing the boat.  There are so many "self admitted" experts posting on the forum who know exactly what's wrong and how to fix the problem.  Maybe Quicken hasn't been hard at work fixing the problem?  Maybe Quicken has been hard at work interviewing these people?  After all, our "self admitted" expert posters know so much more about the problem without even having the specific inside information.  Just imagine how quickly they would be able to get things back in working shape if they actually knew what was broken!

"I don't think it's too much to ask to get correct quotes."

If you think a product that costs under $100 can and more importantly, should be used to manage your investments, more power to you.  Other than being able to keep everything in one place, the investment management capabilities of Quicken are next to nil, when compared to even an "average" brokerage firm.  Take a few minutes to look at Quicken's Investment Reports.

Let's see, we have capital gains, investing activity, asset allocation, investment income, investment performance and investment transactions, portfolio value & cost basis.  Which of these deals with the future?  The future to me is where managing my investments is important.  I already know what I did in the past.  Quicken usually does a great job dealing with the history of my investments.  Yes, the stock quotes have been less than functional for a couple of weeks, but that will pass.  Please post back to let me know specifically what I'm missing with Quicken investment capabilities.

"If I had all my investments in one place I would have never bought Quicken."

It's not my fault that your investments aren't all in one place, but as I said above, Quicken doesn't do much with the future.  You really might want to take another look at the capabilities of a real brokerage.

"Why are you even using Quicken if you manage your accounts from your broker(s) website(s)?"

You really seem to be somewhat short-sighted.  I use Quicken for the same reasons most people use Quicken.  Here are a couple of them. 

I use it to keep track of and pay upcoming bills.  I use it instead of a checkbook.  I haven't written a paper check in years.  I use it to keep track of investments so that I can see changes in my historical net worth.  I use it as a first source for looking up historical transactions.  I can easily find a payment that I made last month or eighteen years ago.  Every month I reconcile all of my bank and credit card accounts.  There are lots of other things I do, but I don't want to bore you.

"Why don't you quit using it and also go back to your paper checkbook register? I bet if the checkbook wasn't working right you wouldn't be so happy."

I was going to give you the old stand-by that my checkbook really doesn't do much, it just sits there and that my math skills are above average, but then I realized that someone like you wouldn't buy into such a lame excuse, so you really have me between the old rock and a hard place.  This is really embarrassing.  I'm going to have to come clean and admit this to you and everyone else on the forum.

I haven't seen any of my checkbooks for a very long time and the only pencil I own that still has an eraser is so dull, I can't even sign my "X" with it.  So there, now you all know the real reason I use Quicken and not my checkbooks.

"You probably don't have enough invested to make a difference whether you get accurate quotes or not."

This is none of your business, but given some of your other comments, I'm going to let it slide.  Let's just say that I'm doing pretty well in retirement.

1 Edit the price history of all money market funds to remove any incorrect prices

2 When you do a One Step Update, click on "Select Quicken.com data to download" (it's next to the Quicken.com checkbox).

3 Select the "Quotes" tab

4 Uncheck the money market fund(s) from downloads.

Quicken will NOT download a price for that fund(s).  And since your MMF is static at $1 per share, you won't miss it!

Hi Ron,

Yes, these FAQs still apply, although the second is more of a list of troubleshooting tips for isolated issues--the issues listed here are (as you can see) are more widespread--

We are happy that we've been able to move to a new portfolio system that we think will one day be better than the old one--but we're obviously not happy that it's causing so many issues for users (but, as you did see in the posts of this thread, we are continually working on it and adding updates when they are available).

The other thread was closed because it was simply a different issue--people weren't looking at the post date, and their posts and issues were at a risk of becoming lost in the shuffle--our intention is to keep things as focused as possible to this thread, so the issues can be more readily corrected.  Now that that post has been locked and un-stickied, users can find this post more easily, and sooner understand what's going on--

I will continue to update the community, as will the product managers, as updates become available--

Thanks...and welcome back

Historical prices give you 5 years worth of data through Quicken downloads.

I have hIstorical prices prior to 8/29/2003 which are listed once monthly (the last day of the month)

Historical prices 9/12/2003 thru 8/6/2004 are given once weekly.

Historical prices 8/10/2004 to current are on a daily basis.

The quotes prior to the 5 year period are those quotes that are from your investment transaction registers.  The reason I see those as once monthly is because I have monthly dividends that are reinvested the last day of the month.

Aside from that, I think this is pretty much how Quicken has worked in the past...as far as I can remember.

In order to "remedy this" (and I don't see this as something that needs to be remedied) is to get quotes from Yahoo finance and import them into Quicken.

aprest:

"Let iimaf rant if he wishes but his attack of other posters on this Community Forum will not fix the problems and headaches that Intuit has caused."

Thank you for permission to speak out.  Why is it that my comments are an attack of other posters?

What do you call the comments from your side of the fence?

rparker:

"Ok, the amount you may or may not have invested was a cheap shot and not necessary to the discussion."

I appreciate this comment, thank you for being up front and honest.

"But you seem to think you know how everyone uses Quicken for their personal use."

Contrary to what you are trying to push on the community, I never suggested anything of the sort.  I simply answered your question and provided a few ways that Quicken helps me.  I certainly didn't speak for "everyone."

"Having investments in multiple places is not a fault as you suggest. Again, not the point. The point is my Quicken software doesn't work as it should."

I'm getting tired of apologizing.  All I said was that it wasn't my fault that your investment accounts weren't at the same brokerage.  Who else could be blamed for this?

The fact that Quicken hasn't been downloading quotes correctly is a problem ALL Quicken users have been experiencing.  I'm dealing with this problem and I believe everyone with 2006 through 2009 has the similar issues.

"It doesn't matter how much the software costs!"

What can I say in response to a statement like this?  If the cost doesn't matter, I suggest you buy a personal financial software package that can keep up with you.  Quicken isn't it.

"It's advertised to download quotes. That's the bottom line! It's been broken since Aug 21 and before that it didn't always work either."

Quicken does download quotes and it has done so without many problems for many years.  I've used Quicken since 1991.  You would have been very unhappy with Quicken back then because there wasn't any download capability.  In fact, Al Gore was still busy trying to re-invent the Internet and getting it to work properly.

For the last couple of weeks we have all had problems.  I've got 2006 and 2009 installed and believe it or not, there are different problems with each install.  Life goes on, at least in my house.  I am in no way a Quicken spokes person.  The powers that be keep editing my comments, but that doesn't stop me from supporting Quicken when it's obvious that they look to be doing the best with a bad situation.

"Maybe your bill reminders will screw up for 3 weeks or fail to remind you randomly through the coming years. I'm sure you'd be okay with that."

Yes, that's possible, but to quote a really old movie, "Maybe if your aunt had a moustache she would be your uncle.  For movie buffs, I think the movie was Darby's Rangers.

"Also, it seems that it's "correct" for you to look at the past regarding your checkbook, but others aren't supposed to do it with their investments."

Yes, it's OK and even "correct" for me or anyone else to look at the past regarding their checkbook, but you should remember, (you really need some focus) I don't have or use checkbooks.  Go back and read my last post again.  You completely lost me with your next comment, "but others aren't supposed to do it with their investments."  As I said previously, the only thing you can do with Quicken's investment section is look at HISTORY, so I'm fine with that concept as well.

You were talking about managing your investments which to me means the future.  Either I'm missing something or you are not communicating your point.