Q: best financial software for mac

It is time to remind users that Intuit have a long history of poor support for Macs, during the 6 years that they failed to update Quicken 2007 for current Macs most other vendors, even of significantly more complex software did update them (Microsoft Office for example) while Intuit relied for a while on a 3rd party emulator provided to them by Apple, and when that went away they chose to abandon users of new Macs entirely.

Support?

This is the Disk Utility on my Lion Mac Mini.

Ah, so you have discovered how to install ElCap, (congratulations on such a fast recovery from not knowing)

Michael Lax wrote:

Until I can get my El Capitan partition to work and run Quicken 2016 for Mac for myself

So do tell us how Quicken 2016 works.

Csound1 wrote:

 

It is time to remind users that Intuit have a long history of poor support for Macs, during the 6 years that they failed to update Quicken 2007 for current Macs most other vendors, even of significantly more complex software did update them (Microsoft Office for example) while Intuit relied for a while on a 3rd party emulator provided to them by Apple, and when that went away they chose to abandon users of new Macs entirely.

 

Support?

The underlined statement is factually incorrect:

As you noted earller, Intuit released version 16.2.0 of Quicken 2007 for Mac that ran in Intel in February, 2012.  They have continued to update that program to the current version 16.2.3 which runs in El Capitan.

Csound1 wrote:

 

Ah, so you have discovered how to install ElCap, (congratulations on such a fast recovery from not knowing)

 

Michael Lax wrote:

Until I can get my El Capitan partition to work and run Quicken 2016 for Mac for myself

So do tell us how Quicken 2016 works.

I thought you were going to attempt to help me....

As I described to you earlier, the problem is not in the installation, but in the "dual-boot!"

Not so much?!?

Earlier you said

Michael Lax wrote:

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac

How long was that brief period? and why was it even required?

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Ah, so you have discovered how to install ElCap, (congratulations on such a fast recovery from not knowing)

 

Michael Lax wrote:

Until I can get my El Capitan partition to work and run Quicken 2016 for Mac for myself

So do tell us how Quicken 2016 works.

I thought you were going to attempt to help me....

 

As I described to you earlier, the problem is not in the installation, but in the "dual-boot!"

 

Not so much?!?

I don't consider a partition that will not boot 'installed' correctly, and as it won't boot at all it is the same as not being installed at all. But if you need some help erase it, erase the partition and do it again, perhaps you will be successful on a repeated attempt. I think that you will.

Startup Disk:

Option-Boot:

                                        [click on images to enlarge]

Csound1 wrote:

 

Earlier you said

 

Michael Lax wrote:

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac

How long was that brief period? and why was it even required?

Could you please link me to where you claim I made that statement?

Csound1 wrote:

 

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Ah, so you have discovered how to install ElCap, (congratulations on such a fast recovery from not knowing)

 

Michael Lax wrote:

Until I can get my El Capitan partition to work and run Quicken 2016 for Mac for myself

So do tell us how Quicken 2016 works.

I thought you were going to attempt to help me....

 

As I described to you earlier, the problem is not in the installation, but in the "dual-boot!"

 

Not so much?!?

I don't consider a partition that will not boot 'installed' correctly, and as it won't boot at all it is the same as not being installed at all. But if you need some help erase it, erase the partition and do it again, perhaps you will be successful on a repeated attempt. I think that you will.

I actually just attempted your advice yesterday to no avail, but thank you.

Is there some setting in Disk Utility to partition that may require a change since the days of Lion until now for El Capitan?

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Earlier you said

 

Michael Lax wrote:

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac

How long was that brief period? and why was it even required?

 

Could you please link me to where you claim I made that statement?  I NEVER write my screenname as: "Michael Lax"!

It's 3 pages back (page 20)

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Earlier you said

 

Michael Lax wrote:

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac

How long was that brief period? and why was it even required?

 

Could you please link me to where you claim I made that statement?

MlchaelLAXDec 8, 2015 11:57 AM
Re: best financial software for macin response to dmauch

What you are saying is not historically accurate.

 

At worst, Intuit was just slow to upgrade Quicken 2007 from PPC to Intel, and they were not the only software developer to exhibit this slowness.  Some publishers NEVER updated their products for Intel, such as Adobe and its product Freehand.

 

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac; most of the users of Quicken 2007 could easily add a Snow Leopard partition to their Macs and continue to use their copy of Quicken 2007 PPC.  This was the most common advice given on this very forum for that problem at that time.

 

Some Mac users, like you and me, purchased a new Mac that could only run OS X Lion put had another Mac that could continue to run Snow Leopard.  I chose to continue to run Quicken 2007 PPC on my 2009 MacBook Pro under Snow Leopard for the few months that it took Intuit to release Quicken 2007 for Intel.  You chose not to.

 

The only Mac users with no alternative initially were those who only had a Mac that would run Lion.  This problem was short-lived and solved by the ability to run Snow Leopard in virtualization, as others expressed in various threads, and as I published as a common source for the use of Snow Leopard in Parallels:

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/installing-snow-leopard-and-rosetta-into-par allels-7-in-lion.1365439/

 

Apple was the worst contributor to this problem as they made little or no effort to warn upgraders of what the real implication of the lack of Rosetta would mean to their inability to run PowerPC applications.   Apple still exhibits this problem to this day, as shown by the many Snow Leopard users who continue to post their frustration on this forum at upgrading to Yosemite and now El Capitan and face the problem of not being able to run their PowerPC apps.

 

Perhaps you should give such harsh criticism to Apple, who is really the main culprit here!

 

UPDATE: The article, whose link you added to your comment after the fact, was published on July 25, 2011; very early in the history of the release of Lion!

That post does not exist and I NEVER write my screenname as: "Michael Lax"!  However, YOU DO!

Csound1 wrote:

 

Earlier you said

 

Michael Lax wrote:

In the brief period between the time from the release of OS X Lion 10.7 until Intuit did release Quicken 2007 for Mac

How long was that brief period? and why was it even required?

If you want to help me with booting into El Capitan so that I can run Quicken 2016 for Mac and report my results, I would appreciate that help.

But, with all due respect, I am done debating the history of Quicken for Mac with you.

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

MlchaelLAX wrote:

 

Csound1 wrote:

 

Ah, so you have discovered how to install ElCap, (congratulations on such a fast recovery from not knowing)

 

Michael Lax wrote:

Until I can get my El Capitan partition to work and run Quicken 2016 for Mac for myself

So do tell us how Quicken 2016 works.

I thought you were going to attempt to help me....

 

As I described to you earlier, the problem is not in the installation, but in the "dual-boot!"

 

Not so much?!?

I don't consider a partition that will not boot 'installed' correctly, and as it won't boot at all it is the same as not being installed at all. But if you need some help erase it, erase the partition and do it again, perhaps you will be successful on a repeated attempt. I think that you will.

I actually just attempted your advice yesterday to no avail, but thank you.

 

Is there some setting in Disk Utility to partition that may require a change since the days of Lion until now for El Capitan?

No it is as it was (Lion I refer to) as is every version from SL to Yosemite (partitioning I mean), perhaps it was the install that stumped you? should we concentrate on that?

The install went smoothly both times I attempted it.  The results are shown as the screenshots for Startup Disk and Option-Boot, above.

Where on my main HD does Apple put the EC installer?