The user doing the month end procedure has told me that she had the normal Do you want to consolidate question, which she responded Yes to, and then had another question of Do you want to clear the G/L Transactions (which is not a message she commonly sees).... I'm not used to that second message either, is that the prompt for the second purge option you mentioned when there's no GL data?. The strange part is that both the IC*.xxx and GL*.xxx data are found in the same folder.

To answer the other questions, they don't have Next year open currently. Retrieve is set to assign period based on date.