Forced use of 64-bit applications

You do have another potential solution and that is to consider using a VM manager, like Parallels or VMware. With this manager, you can create a VM (virtual machine) of an earlier version of OS X or macOS that the version of Quicken you have, works with.

Then, whenever you need to run Quicken, you would just start up this VM and use Quicken as you always have. FWIW, I have multiple earlier releases of macOS going back to OS X Lion as VMs. I run these to help answer questions for folks here at the forum.

if your most valuable application was made 12 years ago you should consider keeping a 12 year old computer or legacy OS to virtualize it. If we stopped tech everytime something couldn't keep up that would be the end of tech.

You can stay with your current operating system if you don't want to upgrade your app to 64 bit. It is only operating systems post Mojave that will no longer support 32 bit apps.

Apple is making it a requirement that only 64-bit applications will be compatible on macOS Catalina and later. No debate about it.

Quicken now only supports Quicken 2019 for Mojave and later. Do not upgrade to macOS Catalina (10.15) this Fall if a 64-bit version of an application does not exist.

Basically in an effort to streamline and reduce the complexity of macOS moving forward. As mentioned Apple has continued to support 32 bit applications for the last 10 years since they moved onto 64 bit Intel architecture.

As time goes by, it becomes increasingly more complex to continue to support 32 bit apps and maintain their required support libraries and dependencies.

Nothing lasts forever, and Apple has given developers ample time to upgrade their apps to 64 bit in that time, and users to find replacements if 64 bit apps are not available from developers.

You cannot honestly expect computers to forever support every older application ever made out there. Its just not possible. At some point things need to move forward.

FWIW I migrate to Quicken Deluxe 2019 and it does every thing I did with 2007. The migration of data to the new version was flawless.

The user interface is quite different from 2007 and the learning curve is a pain. As far as maintaining checking and credit card accounts it does a very good job. The only thing I haven't mastered yes are the multiple reports that I had memorized in 2007.

The one feature I compromised on was online bill pay. I had Quicken BillPay and gave it up to make the payments thru my bank. Takes a bit more effort but saves a bunch of $$ to balance out the yearly subscription.

I'm currently running both versions concurrently until I get more familiar with 2019. This lets me keep track of differences between the two. I was a bit weary at first but am beginning to like 2019's user interface more and more (the font size is larger for these old eyes than with 2007).

Now here comes the disclosure, ready?

I'm retired so have lots of time to give to the learning curve.

Have you tried 2019? What feature of 2007 is missing on those you've tried?

FWIW, the Mac OS has been 64bit for approximately 10 years. In that time Apple has continued to support 32bit apps. However it's a waste of resources and disk space to continue to do so.

Unless you think that Apple is being capricious with this requirement we can only assume that it does have some advantage to them. Remember, Apple is leaving a lot of users of *Apple* 32 bit only apps* out in the cold, too.

*Aperture, iDVD, iPhoto...

mdpaustin wrote:

Good point. Bottom line: I think it must be the case that providing 32-bit support was in some way hampering things elsewhere. For one thing, Apple staff who are familiar with 32-bit applications and processes are probably becoming more and more rare.

I'm sorry but I'm not understanding your post. What do you mean? It matters not to the staff whether an app is 32 bit or 64 bit. It is a hardware capability like 64 bit bus and addressing rather than 32 bit bus and addressing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing

Ask the developers of Quicken why their app won'y run on 64 bit systems. Technology advances. Using your logic Apple should be still supporting 8 bit apps.

Sorry, it was not my intent to be "snide and demeaning". I was only trying to point out why old technology gets replaced by new technology. Apps have been 4 bit, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit and for the past decade 64 bit. Companies like Apple can not continue to support old technology forever. Sorry you got offended by my response.

As I understand it if one bails on the subscription the app will still work but it won't be getting ongoing updates. I bought 2 years worth and at the end I may bail on the subscription and see how it goes.

Note that the latest versions of both Aperture and iPhoto are 64 bit

They may be 64 bit but there are components that are 32 bit which makes them incompatible with Catalina:

I don't have Aperture but am sure it's probably the same.