Merging accounts

After a recent bank merger, online updates are available for my accounts.
When I set it up, it does an online update and sets up new accounts with the
same account numbers as the two current accounts. I wanted to merge the
accounts, but it says it will delete all the history of my original account.
Since I do searches etc to find information from these older transactions, I
cannot use the update. Any way to merge (effectively) and keep both the old
transactions and online update feature.

Cal
Sun Oct 09 11:01:52 CDT 2005

In microsoft.public.money, John Barnes wrote:

>After a recent bank merger, online updates are available for my accounts.
>When I set it up, it does an online update and sets up new accounts with the
>same account numbers as the two current accounts. I wanted to merge the
>accounts, but it says it will delete all the history of my original account.
>Since I do searches etc to find information from these older transactions, I
>cannot use the update. Any way to merge (effectively) and keep both the old
>transactions and online update feature.
>


I think you are saying you have two accounts at the bank, but in
Money it now shows as 4. Make a copy of your file, just in case.
Then do the MergeDuplicateAccounts. The loss of older transactions I
think may be from the newer version, rather than the historic actual
account. It usually works out fine.

John
Sun Oct 09 12:26:54 CDT 2005

Actually I have 2 accounts at the bank which previously didn't have update
and 1 at the other bank that always had update. The later account updates
fine, still. The accounts from the 2 account bank both show up as new
accounts, not matching up in spite of identical account numbers and bank
ids. I will try your idea later. Thanks.


"Cal Learner" <NoMailTnx@please.com> wrote in message
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> In microsoft.public.money, John Barnes wrote:
>
>>After a recent bank merger, online updates are available for my accounts.
>>When I set it up, it does an online update and sets up new accounts with
>>the
>>same account numbers as the two current accounts. I wanted to merge the
>>accounts, but it says it will delete all the history of my original
>>account.
>>Since I do searches etc to find information from these older transactions,
>>I
>>cannot use the update. Any way to merge (effectively) and keep both the
>>old
>>transactions and online update feature.
>>
>
>
> I think you are saying you have two accounts at the bank, but in
> Money it now shows as 4. Make a copy of your file, just in case.
> Then do the MergeDuplicateAccounts. The loss of older transactions I
> think may be from the newer version, rather than the historic actual
> account. It usually works out fine.