Is there any way to use Quicken for Mac 2007 in OSX Lion 10.7.2?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Unfortunately, no. Quicken for Mac 2007 was written based on Power PC code and thus is incompatible with Lion.
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The latest version of VMWare Fusion (4.1) that just came out supposedly will let you run a standard version of Snow Leopard in a virtual machine. You could then run Quicken in that virtual machine.
Funny, I was only mentioning this the other day...
The other option is to install Snow on an external disk and run both OS's off one machine, switching between them depending on what apps you need to use. Easy to do if you have the SL install disks and a USB or Firewire hard drive.
The differences between the two options, as I see it:
External:
Pros: faster, reliable
Cons: can't switch between systems without rebooting
VM:
Pros: you can basically work with both systems at the same time as if they're one (if you use 'coherence' mode)
Cons: may hog system resources, may crash, and —as we'll no doubt hear very shortly from the forum witches —it's still unclear whether or not it violates the Snow Leopard EULA.
Personally, IMO, I don't think Apple cares one hoot about people doing this if they're running Apple-bought OS's on Apple machines, but I just know we're going to hear some (ahem...) "alternative" points of view any second now, (counting, 3...2...1...)
Note: last I heard, Parallels 6 but not Parallels 7 is capable of running SL on Lion in an VM. Interesting to hear that Fusion have updated to enable this...
keith 230 wrote:
Is there any way to use Quicken for Mac 2007 in OSX Lion 10.7.2?
If you have not yet loaded Lion, I suggest that you investigate Quicken alternatives FIRST. That will allow you to continue with Quicken while looking at other packages. It also simplifies your conversion. I found the Quicken Essentials to be really crappy. I ended up with iBank which has its issues but is somewhat tolerable.
FWIW, Intuit has pretty much abandoned the Mac market.
He has ugpraded already, you can see this from the system spec given at the bottom of the OP's post.
In that case, my suggestion #2 is to find a friend with SL. Load Quicken on his/her machine and load the data file. Create a bazillion reports as "print to PDF" and then copy all PDFs to a jump drive and finally remove everything from the friend's machine.
Find a new financial package that you like and create a new file brandy new. Use the PDF files as an aid to setting it up. You won't have the full historical capability of Quicken but, if there are enough PDFs, it should be tolerable.
Talk about a PITA! Use that same friends machine and have Quicken export the data file as a .qif. Then import it into your chosen Mac program. The top Mac programs will import Quicken .qif files although not without some errors. I have used iBank, Moneydance, and now SeeFinance. SeeFinance did the best job of importing a .qif.
Justan Oldfart wrote:
SeeFinance did the best job of importing a .qif.
But none of them are perfect. In the absence of the PDFs, it would be a major effort to locate and correct errors. I'm now thinking about a combination of both my suggestion and your suggestion.
Philly_Phan wrote:
Justan Oldfart wrote:
SeeFinance did the best job of importing a .qif.
But none of them are perfect. In the absence of the PDFs, it would be a major effort to locate and correct errors. I'm now thinking about a combination of both my suggestion and your suggestion.
Totally agree, I imported a QIF file into iBank, there were ommisions, I also had reports (not enough it turned out) so was able to reconstruct most transactions.
Just got this email from Quicken saying that they will have a Lion-compatible Quicken for Mac program available by this spring. http://bit.ly/tXXWAc
Their timing stinks for me. First, I converted everything to their crappy Quicken Essentials. After completely giving up on that, I started brand new (no conversion, no history) with the almost-as-crappy iBank. I've lost twenty years of history and now the best that I can hope for is to retrieve that history with a full one-year gap!
Is there any way to use Quicken for Mac 2007 in OSX Lion?
