Lion OS X 10.7 and Quicken 2007

Amen

I have

Allan

The Lion Version of Quicken 2007 is now available:

http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp

sweet!! Now hopefully I can stop running Quicken in vmware fusion running Mac OS X Server 10.6... Thanks intuit!

Just downloaded it. Gave me this message "Quicken Mac Lion 2007 DOWNLOAD for Windows" which caused me a pause but since I had come from the Lion page quoted above, I went ahead. Small download and it went into the App folder and away we went. Seems fine. $15 bucks isn't bad considering what I paid for other programs I tried that didn't work. I'm happy now I can move on to Lion.

Quick(en) question - Does this version also run in SL?

The Quicken web page (link above) does not shead any light that I can find on this product's compatability.

I'd like to try it out and then if all is good, move on to Lion.

I called Quicken since I'm migrating from Quicken 2003. They recommended installing original Quicken 2007, then upgrading to Lion, then downloading the Quickin 2007 for Lion upgrade.

I'm told by Quicken support that the new Lion compatible Quicken for Mac will not open in Snow Leopard. I tried and got the spinning beach ball. The say you have to upgrade to Lion first, and then download the new application and it automatically converts your data file.

A bit risky if it doesn't work, since my old Quicken for Mac file won't open in Lion.

OK - it does run in Snow leopard. I do get a very strange error message everytime I open a file:

"Insecure update error!

For security reasons, you need to distribute your appcast over SSL or sign your updates. See Sparkle's documentation for more information."

I spent a long time on Quicken support - they didn't seem to really know what the error is but told me to just dismiss the window - that it had something to do with my firewall and Quicken apparently trying to do something with the network (a little disconcerting if you ask me). The fellow I interacted with didn't know what Sparkle was or what appcast could be referring to.

When I dismiss the window Quicken seems to otherwise work just fine. There's a message about one of my buttons being turned off (not sure which one) as it is no longer supported. It's not clear that it's fully Lion compatible yet - two finger swiping doesn't move windows. Otherwise, though, it seems a bit more responsive than the prior version of Quicken, so it's worth considering even if you're not ready for Lion. Heaven knows I'm not going yet - I'm very uneasy about the changes made to address book / iCal and the switch from MobileMe (which works reasonably well as long as I use iTunes to sync my calendars) to iCloud (which appears to not be workable for me for compliance reasons).

Correction - two finger swipe does work with the Accounts window and with specifica accounts, but not with the Repeating Transactions window. So we seem to have partial support for swipe.

James - I was able to get it to work in Snow Leopard - see my post to the thread for details...

Thanks, but for some reason I can't get the program to open my data file.

Finally. Just paid my $15, downloaded and opened in Lion. Seems to work fine although I did get an error message saying that some buttons had been removed because they were for functionality that's no longer available.

Anyone know what went away?

Anyway, seems fine but I'm ready to declare victory yet given Intuit's history.

What it's been since 2007 that they haven't done anything with the product. Then after Rosetta goes away, they hire a guy and in a matter of months they crank out a Lion-compatible version? Couldn't have been that hard once they put their minds to it...

I am not so eager to go back. I moved everything to iBank back in November. Will this new version convert my iBank file? Does anyone know for sure?

If you've made the transition and are happy with iBank, I would stay there. I would stay even if iBank is just acceptable. If the transition isn't one-button simple, my guess is it's just too much work.

Amen to that.

After many, many years with Quicken, I switched to iBank at the end of last year (2011) - see earlier posts.

Best move I have made in a long time.

It's a great program with a few glitches.

But, unlike Quicken, they seem committed to working out the Mac wrinkles.

The above posts raise the hairs on the back of my neck...sounds like Quicken once again with the limited Mac support..always reluctant!

I do love iBank!

...John