It's all good so far

We were on the morning dog constitutional when the wife remarked that she had not heard my father’s ringtone this morning. No sooner than she had completed the statement, the opening notes to “Man of La Mancha” wafted out of my jacket pocket. It is my Dad with a tech support issue.

I am now back at the computer – listening to that intuit blues playlist while waiting on customer support. It turns out that the company file that I uploaded at his request to replace the one that I uploaded was incomplete. When his computer started giving problems, he moved to his ancient laptop and started entering data into a much older file. Of course there is a fairly significant data gap on this old file but it does have his last 45 days of current transactions. This morning he has asked what happened to the data between 2011 and mid January of this year.

I await the intuit dragon. The last time I checked, Intuit was not able to an incremental import of data into a company. You could only over-write the existing company. I don’t believe this. I think you could export and then import, otherwise you should not be able to download bank transactions into the account.

No, evidently you can’t.

There must have been a team design meeting when the code monkeys were gathered in the clearing grooming each other when the chief marketing baboon stood up and said that allowing data portability would be a bad thing. The code monkeys hoot in agreement, and what should have been a simple database file became proprietary.

So, I have to upload the old books through the back door (win 7 – 32 bit mode w explorer 8), then I must get online access from the bank, download the most recent transactions, and then edit them to credit or debit the proper accounts.

How many more missions do I have to fly?

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