Quicken 2007 for Lion is out but won't launch

Peter Bannon wrote:

I fear Quickie Quicken 2007 Lion may be just another dead end, another excuse to procrastinate before facing the music in iCloud.

I have no earthly reason to pollute the airways with unwanted EMI/EMR since there's no iOS devices (toys in my vernacular) and I'm not sharing with my computers through their common router to the net. Haven't any good reason to worry about that move. I compute with OS 9, Tiger, and Leopard on the G4, Snow Leopard on the iMac, and play with Lion, but rarely. I suspect that aside from security updates, I won't miss much. I know of people still running Panther on eMacs, so I can live without the always connected and social networking nonsense.

baltwo wrote:

I can live without the always connected and social networking nonsense.

Amen.

I have no need to chuck the serious work I do desktop over to mobile and cloud. What I will miss is the online storage of Mobile.Me. Though Apple's online services have not been good since the beginning ...iTools?

Anyway. based on yours and others positive post on Quicken2007 I bit the bullet and bought it today. Everything went perfectly. Have had enough time to move ten years worth of Quicken from Tiger to Lion. Haven't open all but the ones I did went fine. Finally got around to copying my 2011 checking, credit cards, mileage and online checking accounts over to 2012. Went perfectly including my online checking transactions download - separate account from checking I kept manually.

Peter Bannon wrote:

…based on yours and others positive post on Quicken2007 I bit the bullet and bought it today. Everything went perfectly. Have had enough time to move ten years worth of Quicken from Tiger to Lion.

Has anyone taken the more expensive route of moving Quicken 2007 to Quickbooks for Mac, which is supported? Does everything but investments? (at ten times the price).

Not doing anything until Taxes reports are done and filed... but there is that iClound and MobileMe deadlines looming to force one to Lion.

fausttiger wrote:

... but there is that iClound and MobileMe deadlines looming to force one to Lion.

The alternative is forego the cloudy stuff and still go to Lion. The revised Quicken works there and doesn't depend on joining Apple polluting the airways.😉

I've used Quicken since 1997. I recently installed the update for 2007 with Lion. It was extremely easy and I have had no problems. I do not use portfolio features- Maybe, that is part of the problem for some. I am using icloud because I wanted to keep my @mac email which will no longer be available in June had I not made thw switch. It works fine with Quicken and Lion.I disliked Essentials and have not found a program that I can use as comfortably as Quicken. Maybe it is just familiarity. I tried several others. I do hope they revise Quicken 2007 with a new up to date product for the mac, but for now this is fine.

rrodby wrote:

I have used Quicken sine 1989. I have had some securities for > 20 years. I can get Lion Quicken 2007 to work with Lion by trashing my "corrupted" Quotes file, but then I am limited to only the last 5 years of stock/mutual fund prices when I re-retrieve historical prices. AND I have a number of them that I put the prices in manually as they dont get downloaded. Honestly, this is not good.

FWIW, I reset my database at the beginning of '04 and all my quotes survived the update. Sorry yours got corrupted.

Quotes file? My Quicken 2007 accounts are all in a single file. Is there a quotes file embedded in the package? Haven't used them for years, but remember manually inputting some prices years ago.

Haven't explored it, have you? 😉

CONTROL-click on the data file->Show package contents->open the Contents folder and you should see this:

Thanks. The Quotes are just a record of historical quotes? One is not trashing prices actually entered into any trades in the ledger? If one needs to trash quotes, will that require a reconcile to fix really old transactions?

Waiting a short while for Quicken for Lion 1.01 to come out... LOL hopefully with a few more bug fixes.

Michael Schmitt wrote this at MacInTouch:

Here's a method for determining which quotes you have:

1. Export all of the security prices to a .QIF file.

2..In Quicken 2007, choose File > Export > Selected Items to QIF, and then select only Security prices.

3. That should save the file, entitled: "name of your data file.qif" to your Desktop.

4. Open that file in TextEdit and modify or add entries.

You should be able to import the modified file back into your data file, but that's left as an exercise. Copy your current data file and play with the copy.

Contains the "prices"... but does potential loss of prices mess up the total amount of "transaction" placed in your Quicken ledger? ... and hence mess up older reconciles?

Not running the new Quicken yet to test.