End of Rosetta?

Rick Kuntz1 wrote:

I've been using Apple and Quicken for many years (1984); I was going to buy a new 27 inch iMac but I use Quicken intensively; so gonna stick with my old iMac until they not us have to come up with a solution!

Who's this "they" you are referring to? Apple or Intuit? I would say this is all Intuit's fault. They failed to produce an Intel version of Quicken that was a successor to Quicken 2007. Instead they released a half-baked, feature starved, version called Mac Essentials which is not a good substitute for their earlier product at all.

By pulling Rosetta from Lion Apple is calling the bluff of all the devlopers who've dragged their feet in converting to Intel compatible code. They'll either convert or die now. Quicken is a special case because there really isn't any acceptable replacement except for the Windows version.

Quicken 2007 is the end of the line for me. I've converted all my Quicken files, over 20 years of data, to iBank.

It's full-featured and Mac-centric. Check it out at http://iggsoftware.com/ibank/ It's available in the Mac App Store or from the vendor. It also has a companion iPhone App.

There was some clean-up required, but it was worth it.

I looked at the iBank website; there seems to be an awful lot of stuff that would require quite a learning curve. I have not tried it, but maybe you can describe the cleanup you mentioned. I just use Quicken (2005) to balance my checkbooks; iBank looks like overkill and I don't feel like starting over again to learn to use new software. Is it similar to Quicken?

I have downloaded MoneyDance, iBank, SEE Finance to get a feel for how the applications work. I backed up and imported my Quicken Mac 2007 data into each application. The data goes back about 8 years. My first take is that MoneyDance will be the winner. I can't see continuing to use Quicken Mac 2007 for much longer. I do run Parallels in order to use other Business accounting applications however I am not willing to take my personal finance to the dark side. Quicken Mac 2007 was a great product and I will miss it!

Well, so far I've stuck with my Snow Leopard. To the folks who suggest buying updated programs, I would like to point out that I'm talking $1000+ to replace all my graphics editing, music sequencing, and a $#!† ton of classic gaming. I am a full time classical musician. I won't ask you to do the math.

However, I will ask a question, if anyone is still out there listening: Without having put a partition on this machine when it was new, can you do one on the fly now, or would I have to start with a clean install?

skwee wrote:

However, I will ask a question, if anyone is still out there listening: Without having put a partition on this machine when it was new, can you do one on the fly now, or would I have to start with a clean install?

The answer's a qualified 'maybe'.

DU in SL can be used to repartition on the fly to a limited extent, but it requires that the existing data on the drive is all in the first part of the drive; i.e. a contiguous block leaving empty space to use for the new partiton. Given your description of your work, that's probably not going to be the case.

As the best solution to that involves making a bootable clone to an external HD (which you really should already have as a backup anyway with all that expensive software), and then cloning it back, that would wipe the internal anyway, so you may as well use DU from the clone to do the partitioning before cloning back.

Thank you. I understand the situation with DU, so maybe I'll just hold out.

Peace