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From: drwtsn32 on 4 Mar 2010 10:19
I am using Quicken 2010. I would like to NOT have a password on the
password vault itself. Quicken seems to require it. Is there an
undocumented workaround?
From: Han on 4 Mar 2010 20:44
drwtsn32 <drwtsn32(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:e0592e4f-b315-403e-88f2-
9d46ee2be564(a)v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com:

> I am using Quicken 2010. I would like to NOT have a password on the
> password vault itself. Quicken seems to require it. Is there an
> undocumented workaround?

What's so bad about a password? You could use "boo" if nothing else
strikes your fancy. Secure is better than insecure, even if you are
absolutely sure your machine will never get stolen.

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Best regards
Han
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From: Nobody on 4 Mar 2010 22:43
On 05 Mar 2010 01:44:59 GMT, Han <nobody(a)nospam.not> wrote:

>drwtsn32 <drwtsn32(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:e0592e4f-b315-403e-88f2-
>9d46ee2be564(a)v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com:
>
>> I am using Quicken 2010. I would like to NOT have a password on the
>> password vault itself. Quicken seems to require it. Is there an
>> undocumented workaround?
>
>What's so bad about a password? You could use "boo" if nothing else
>strikes your fancy. Secure is better than insecure, even if you are
>absolutely sure your machine will never get stolen.


Might I "re-ask" this question where I received no response five weks
or so ago:

I recently upgraded from Q Deluxe 1999 to Q2010 Home and Business
(Canada)... yeah, yeah, I know!

The conversion was painless and perfectly executed. The 2010 "one
big data file" threw me for a while.

However, today I made an error while setting up a new "savings"
account, and in the process of trying to <delete> the boo-boo, Q2010
required permission by asking for a "transaction password".

I've never set one up... the only password I had with Q99 was the
initial request when loading data, and that migrated successfully to
2010.

I managed to work around the error, but I'm now faced with no way to
change any transaction if need be because I don't know this password,
and I cannot set up a new one as Q2010 demands I provide the "old" one
first!

I never had such a beast.

And no, it's not the same as my data password.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I'm still faced with this "non-existent" password.
From: jslcr1 on 5 Mar 2010 06:03
On Mar 4, 9:43 pm, Nobody <j...(a)soccer.com> wrote:
> On 05 Mar 2010 01:44:59 GMT, Han <nob...(a)nospam.not> wrote:
>
> >drwtsn32 <drwts...(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:e0592e4f-b315-403e-88f2-
> >9d46ee2be...(a)v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com:
>
> >> I am using Quicken 2010.  I would like to NOT have a password on the
> >> password vault itself.  Quicken seems to require it.  Is there an
> >> undocumented workaround?
>
> >What's so bad about a password?  You could use "boo" if nothing else
> >strikes your fancy.  Secure is better than insecure, even if you are
> >absolutely sure your machine will never get stolen.
>
> Might I "re-ask" this question where I received no response five weks
> or so ago:
>
> I recently upgraded from Q Deluxe 1999 to Q2010 Home and Business
> (Canada)... yeah, yeah, I know!
>
> The conversion was painless and perfectly executed.   The 2010 "one
> big data file" threw me for a while.
>
> However, today I made an error while setting up a new "savings"
> account, and in the process of trying to <delete> the boo-boo, Q2010
> required permission by asking for a "transaction password".
>
> I've never set one up... the only password I had with Q99 was the
> initial request when loading data, and that migrated successfully to
> 2010.
>
> I managed to work around the error, but I'm now faced with no way to
> change any transaction if need be because I don't know this password,
> and I cannot set up a new one as Q2010 demands I provide the "old" one
> first!  
>
> I never had such a beast.
>
> And no, it's not the same as my data password.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> I'm still faced with this "non-existent" password.

Check this link for an answer.

http://financialsoft.about.com/od/datasecurity/ss/Q_transpasswd.htm

Also if you open Quicken and go to Help you will find more info about
this such as

Transaction passwords protect all transactions before a certain date.
After you set up a transaction password, Quicken will prompt you for
the password before you can record changes to any of the transactions
dated on or before the date you specified. (You might use a
transaction password when you close an accounting period so that no
one accidentally changes transactions within that period.)

Choose File menu > Open Quicken File to open the data file that
contains the transactions you want to protect with a password.
What does a transaction password protect?
A transaction password protects only the transactions in a file before
a specified date.

Choose File menu > Set Password to modify transactions.
In the Password field, type the password.
What are the password requirements?
You can type up to 15 characters, including spaces. Quicken is case
sensitive. This means that if you specify aBc987, you must type aBc987
and not abc987 or ABC987.

In the Confirm Password field, reenter the same password.
In the Required For Dates Through field, enter the date of the last
transaction you want the password to apply to.
Click OK.
What happens next?
From now on, Quicken prompts you for the password before you can
record changes to any of the transactions dated on or before the date
you specified. You can use this as a reminder not to change
transactions for a specific accounting period by setting the date for
the close of the accounting period.

If you cannot remember your password, Intuit offers a password removal
service.

From: drwtsn32 on 5 Mar 2010 18:22
> > I am using Quicken 2010.  I would like to NOT have a password on the
> > password vault itself.  Quicken seems to require it.  Is there an
> > undocumented workaround?
>
> What's so bad about a password?  You could use "boo" if nothing else
> strikes your fancy.  Secure is better than insecure, even if you are
> absolutely sure your machine will never get stolen.

Thanks for the lecture, but that's not what I asked... so I take it
there is NO way to not have a password. Lame. It should be our
choice.
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