Lion OS X 10.7 and Quicken 2007

I mean being able to transfer money from one account to the other.

Quicken 2007 is not the only product that won't be able to run on Lion. However, it is the only product I've seen where the manufacturer tells you that if you want certain features (investment tracking, for example), don't upgrade to the newer one (Essentials), buy the older one.

I, like many others, have years of data under Quicken and not found that other programs can give me the same features and access to online systems that Q2k7 does. Therefore:

If you want to continue to use Q2k7 then your choices are going to be:

1. Build a VM with Server 10.6 (no license to allow you to do so with 10.6 client so VMWare and Parallels block you), and set it up and run it under it, or,

2. Move to Q2K7 Windows, losing your online updating setups, and run it in a Windows VM, or,

3. Install Lion in its own partition, migrate to it, but leave your 10.6 partition so that you can run products like Q2K7 or Adobe Ilustrator without worry.

If you go the separate partion method, you can have Lion point to your old home directory, and not have to move it, by going into the Users preferences when in Lion, right click on your user name, and replace the directory (which will show the one on the Lion partition) to the pathway from your 10.6 partition, close out and reboot.

Just do what Quicken or whatever program does in the background. Debit it from one account and credit the same amount to the other account.

I also recommend everyone who depends on Quicken, to post feedback here:

http://quicken.intuit.com/support/feedback/mac-essentials/

One of the pulldown menus is "A Quicken product", which basically allows you to submit feedback regarding all Quicken products.

Re NeoOffice. It is no longer free as it once was.

While not an ideal solution to the Quicken issue, NeoOffice continues to be free. Why do you feel it is no longer a free product?

The most recent version (3.2) requires a donation--I think ten dollars. You can still download an earlier version (3.1.2?) for free.

Have a nice day.

Ah... so it is. Seems like an odd decision to make since OpenOffice and Libre Office are still free. While NeoOffice traditionally was better suited to OS X than OpenOffice, with the last few releases OO, they have pretty much bridged that gap. I would certainly consider OO a viable alternative to NeoOffice. Although, for an office suite, $10 is pretty cheap.

CNet reported that Apple noted this, and that there is a solution; Apple and Intuit are working together to keep enough of the Rosetta code in Lion that Quicken 2007 will work in Lion, at least until Quicken can release a new version. You can read the article here: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20071965-263/quicken-2007-may-run-in-os-x-l ion-sooner-or-later/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt.

If you're still worried, there is another workaround. If you have a bootable backup of Snow Leopard/Leopard (by using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper), you can boot off of that and run the old OS and therefore still use Quicken 2007 that way.

Unfortunately all TRUE and there are, IMHO, still no good solutions. Quicken "Essentials" is a retrograde program that has many less features than Quicken 2007 and does not have electronic bill pay which I consider essential. IBank 4 similarly does not have bill pay. You have three solutions: set up partition, install Windows and Quicken for Windows; set up partition for both Snow Leopard (for Q 2007) and Lion (for everything else; stick with Snow Leopard until this dilemma is solved. I shall do the latter.

There is another program that has not been mentioned in this thread. The program is call Money Dance. The developers claim it will work with Lion. The big plus to this program, is that it has built-in bill pay. Also all of your Quicken data can be moved over. Just looking over Money Dance, the only thing I see missing, currently, there is no way to transfer money online between your accounts. A feature I use often in Quicken for Mac 2007. Also, the interface is not as nice as Quicken. When I discovered that Quicken for Mac would not work with Lion, I started looking for possible replacements. It's interesting to note the QFM seems to be the only product out there that does just about everything. It's a shame the Intuit will not offer any software for the Mac Lion platform that is not a step backwards.

Allan- Were you able to import your Quicken 2007 data into Quicken Essentials?

I'm still using Quicken 2005 and have over 15 years of data that I'd prefer to not walk away from.

Yes, I was able to get everything from Q7 over to Essentials without any problems what so ever.

Allan

You did better than I did. There was something in my data that totally messed up the import.