In addition to Cal's description, two points:
1. It often doesn't work -- prices still get downloaded. I've not been able
to figure out the pattern.
2. If you then repurchase a security, then it sometimes continues to work --
i.e., won't download prices for the security. I've not been able to figure
out the pattern here either.

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Michael Gordon


"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Fred Todt wrote:

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Go ahead and click. You will then see a description. It does not
actually act until you press another button on the resulting popup.

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That thinning out you describe would be nice. But no, it is supposed
to delete quotes for securities you no longer hold, and that you
don't list in a watch account.


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Note that Money does not reclaim space in files every time, but will
free up unused space each time it sees that the file has grown more
than some amount. So don't assume it did not help if the effect is
not immediate.

I just upgraded to 2007 trial version (from 2003) and I find what appears to
be an undocumented item, so I'm wondering what it does.

I'm on the Portfolio Manager screen, and on the left side, I click on Other
Tasks-> More-> and there's a "Clear historical quotes" menu item. I don't
find it documented in the help file, nor in the FAQ, nor on this newsgroup,
yet. I'm wondering if anyone's been brave enough to click on it and could
tell us what it does? Does it reduce the size of your file? How much?

I would hope it does NOT just do a wholesale deletion of all historical
quote information, because then it would no longer be possible to (easily)
determine the value of your portfolio for any given date. Ideally (IMO), it
would just clear out weekday quotes, leaving 1) Friday quotes, 2)
last-day-of-month quotes, and 3) last-day-of-year quotes. Or, better yet,
it would let you customize the "clearing" process to achieve something like
that.

Can anyone report back on how this option works? If not, I'll backup up my
file, give it a try and report back.

Thanks,
Fred