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Further, if you transfer your data to Quicken Essentials, you better hope you like it - because there’s no exit route.
#Quicken for mac 2007 lion update mac os#
Īs of now, if you update your Mac to Lion before first exporting your data from Quicken 2007, your data is toast - unless you have access to another Mac that contains Quicken and runs an older version of Mac OS X.
#Quicken for mac 2007 lion update software#
While you can export Quicken 2007 data to Essentials under Snow Leopard (I’ve already tested this out and it works fine), you can’t do the export after you’ve upgraded to Lion - because the necessary converter software won’t run under Lion! For the same reason, if you want to export you Quicken 2007 data to iBank (an iBank video tutorial shows you how), you better do it before upgrading to Lion. Why? Because Essentials does not include QIF file export and thus does not offer a way to export your data back to Quicken 2007 - or to any other competing product (such as iBank, a popular alternative that received a 5/5 rating here at TM0). Even if that did not exist, you still couldn’t get your data to go from Essentials back to Quicken 2007. Never mind about the Lion/Rosetta problem. If you decide you don’t like Essentials after trying it out for awhile, there’s no going back. What makes me most anxious about moving to Essentials is that it’s a one-way street. In considering Essentials, its feature limitations are not my main concern. It’s pretty much Essentials or a non-Intuit product.
#Quicken for mac 2007 lion update windows#
Otherwise, if you’re willing to run Windows on your Mac, you can use the full-featured Windows version of Quicken. If you like to live in the clouds, you can use the company’s service. Intuit offers two other alternatives for Quicken 2007 users. On the up side, as of version 1.5, you can at least print checks with Essentials (addressing a critical prior concern of mine). As Intuit itself admits, Essentials is missing some key features found in Quicken 2007 - most notably, you cannot pay bills from within Essentials. I’ve resisted this switch thus far because I’m anxious that, in the end, I will not be satisfied with Essentials.
And this is what I will probably do - hoping for the best. How does Intuit suggest I resolve my dilemma? Its primary recommendation is for me switch to Quicken Essentials for the Mac. Besides, given Intuit’s poor track record regarding support for the Mac, I’m skeptical that we will ever see this vapor-product anyway.
I’ve known about this Rosetta business for months. I’m sorry, but I can’t wait that long to take action. Aaron Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group, previously told TMO’s Dave Hamilton that “Intuit is working closely with Apple …to possibly embed specific Rosetta libraries into Quicken For Mac 2007.” Intuit will let us know by “the end of this summer” if this will actually happen or not. So, after upgrading to Lion, it’s adios to my old Quicken. Unfortunately, Apple is not supporting Rosetta in Lion. Why? Because Quicken 2007 remains a PowerPC program and thus requires Apple’s Rosetta software to run on Intel Macs. Quicken 2007, or any older version, will not run under Lion. I have no desire to switch to another product at this point. I put up with its flaws, only occasionally grumbling. Like an old married couple, we’re comfortable with each other. I remain stuck at Quicken 2007 (the last version that Intuit released). I have used Quicken as my financial manager, for better or sometimes worse, since the 1990’s. And my first OS-related hassle, which I have to confront even before updating to Lion on my main Mac…will be to decide what to do about Quicken.
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