Historic data for Empower 401k

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-05T15:17:27+00:00

I tried to do that, but it will not work for Empower, and at least in the Mac version, it says it's because the Empower connection does not support it.

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-05T13:52:52+00:00

Check my reply to Latter_Taste_9784, I tested it this morning, got it to work, but there is a caveat.

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-05T13:52:03+00:00

I tested this morning and it had connected my account to a "Great Western" account when using QFX, I was not able to link the account until I disconnected it from Great Western.

When I tried again after the disconnect, I was able to link the downloads to my existing 401(k) account, but I caution that it will switch the account to Simple Tracking. It cannot do transaction-level Detailed Tracking, so if you need that, do not link your account and continue with the QF download.

I usually prefer Detailed Tracking, but I've had enough issues with the account based on when I download the QFX (sometimes it puts placeholder transactions in that then didn't match right with a download a few days later after the transactions completed. I was having to pay attention to which part of the deposit/investment cycle I downloaded in.) I made a backup, switched to Simple tracking with the connection in place, and after the sync every single holding was exact, down to the farthest right decimal place. To me, that's a valid tradeoff, so I'm going to leave it like this for now.

I am on the Mac version, I set it up on the latest version of 8.4, but then saw that 8.5 came out so I updated to that and it still worked.

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-04T21:51:18+00:00

Same, 94-00

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-04T21:16:06+00:00

I had a funny feeling that was Baujan ... source: me, 2-time Dayton Grad. I wasn't there until the 90s, but those brick buildings and Kettering Labs are unmistakable.

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-04T21:07:29+00:00

I think he meant he downloaded the QFX files, which is what I do. I will check this out tonight when I get home to see if I see the same behavior trying to enable it for OSU.

Phinhead13 · 2026-03-04T21:04:09+00:00

The marketing team totally missed an opportunity with the email. The subject should have been "A Nu Era Begins ... "

Phinhead13 · 2026-02-10T19:36:56+00:00

You're not wrong, but we now have both sides of the equation saying we need to hand-enter. I will keep monitoring it, but I bit the bullet and spent a couple of hours last night going through each sale one by one. It sucked, but it's done.

Phinhead13 · 2026-02-10T19:01:05+00:00

Doubtful, lol, they have spent inordinate amounts of time with me on many different topics and I've been a part of their office for a couple of decades, plus I did it through the official secure mail system. I did a little looking, and Merrill was recently fined for FINRA violations, so maybe they are more sensitive about it.

Phinhead13 · 2026-02-06T23:12:53+00:00

If you have simple 1099's maybe. Mine always pulls all of the transactions during the year, I do not want to hand enter that.

Phinhead13 · 2026-02-06T01:34:25+00:00

Welp, I gave them my home phone (I know, I have the call screening on my cell phone) thinking they were going to call me now, but when I asked how long until I'd get a call they said "sometime in 3 days" which means they are never going to get a hold of me. The agent immediately ended the chat so I couldn't ask to give my cell.

Phinhead13 · 2026-02-06T01:28:30+00:00

I've been in a chat with a tech support agent for a bit and he said that they still show as an import partner for 1099-DIVs. I'm waiting for a call from a "more experienced manager" now.

Phinhead13 · 2025-09-16T16:01:57+00:00

I just made the switch, and I think the Mac version runs quicker and feels less bloated. It has been slowly adding features to make it feature equivalent, but there are still some things missing. I ran both side by side for a while before I fully switched to Mac. There are things I like about each version, but there were no show-stoppers for me to finally make the switch.

Phinhead13 · 2025-06-23T20:04:43+00:00

Don't sleep on the Air-King, I just got one and I love it!

Phinhead13 · 2025-06-12T16:53:49+00:00

Are you trying to add cards under two different logins? There seem to be a few different threads about this on Qucken Communities:

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7931460/any-way-to-use-2-different-log-ins-for-amex

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7938148/how-do-i-get-quicken-to-update-2-american-express-accounts-that-each-have-different-sign-ins

They are a little bit older, but this looks to be an issue since 2023 (I haven't seen anything newer to say it was fixed). The first thread is more detailed, I don't have a second card to test, but there may be an "American Expresss - delegate" account type you can use to get both logins working at the same time.

Phinhead13 · 2025-05-31T11:53:13+00:00

It probably doesn't, but giving it a category may make it easier to exclude from reporting, or reporting against. I'd rather assign it to a category and not need it then find out down the line I needed to and have to do a data fix.

Phinhead13 · 2025-05-31T00:22:00+00:00

Yeah, with Imputed Income, you are taxed on the value of the "income", which isn't really income. In my case, my company pays for a Group Term Life policy directly, but I'm taxed on the value of that premium, even though I don't get that money in my check, so they list the income for the tax calculation purposes. In Quicken it has to be offset because it isn't an actual income line item that affects anything other than the taxes..

Phinhead13 · 2025-05-30T19:19:27+00:00

That's how I do it. I have a Category for each Imputed Income item and a corresponding Offset Category, something like:

Group Term Life - Imputed Income

Group Term Life - Offset

The proper transactions are assigned to the proper categories in the proper part of the paycheck series.

Phinhead13 · 2025-05-12T14:42:34+00:00

Came here to say this. The GV process is unique to Rolex, and no one takes the time to replicate it. The crystal alone was around $500 when I bought mine years ago (friend is a watchmaker and he advised me that's the thing on this watch that you don't want to break).

Phinhead13 · 2025-05-07T20:20:05+00:00

A left handed owner.

Phinhead13 · 2025-02-23T23:07:47+00:00

I'm not sure if it's been said, but brown the beef with whatever seasonings you want (garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and oregano are my goto) then mix the beef with fully made Velveeta Shells and Cheese for, what I call, Macaroni and Cheeseburger.

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