Csound1 wrote:
Here's a picture of it for you, 3rd paragraph, 1st line.
So, how long was the period between the release of OS X Lion and a version of Quicken that would run on it?
And it was indeed me that mistyped your name, but the quote is accurate.
As for helping you, erase the partition and start again.
We are treading on thin ice here (mixed metaphor intentional 😁) as this was one of many posts from earlier today that were deleted by the moderators and you know how much they hate to have their work undermined!
That being said, I will acknowledge your earlier statements that Intuit did indeed have over six years to update Quicken 2007 to an Intel or Universal version, which they chose not to do at that time. However, that time frame and your statements about other software publishers are misleading.
The accurate time period is from when the first Mac was sold that required Lion to operate (July, 2011) until Intuit did release the Intel version of Quicken 2007 in February, 2012: at most, seven months. During this period of time only a small fraction of Quicken 2007 users actually faced this problem, including myself when my iMac G5 died for the last time and I replaced it with a Lion Mac Mini in August, 2011.
There were various workarounds, many of which I utilized as well as did others and were posted on this very forum!
I never lost any of my ability to continue working with Quicken during this period of time and I did not have to research the competition of products, make evaluations, translate data and then learn a new application, only to be disappointed in the result, as has been expressed by others!
I continue to utilize Quicken 2007 for Mac for all of my home accounting needs. I have been doing this since I purchased my first Apple ][+ in 1979 and used the program Home Accountant, then Time is Money and then moved over to my Mac with Quicken in the 1990's.
I never was fooled by Intuit to pay for yearly updates, as the basic principles of accounting have not changed in all these years. The yearly updates were simply a marketing tool used by Intuit to needlessly get users to pay annual income. In fact, I continued to use Quicken Deluxe 2002 until I purchased my Lion Mac Mini in 2011 and afterwards purchased Quicken 2007 for Intel Mac in February 2012. I recently purchased Quicken 2016 for Mac at an offered discount solely at the request of one of the members of this forum who suggested that it might be a "real" update of Quicken 2007 and not another misleading update of Quicken Essentials as was the release of Quicken 2015 for Mac.
You have made it clear in my other threads about restoring Rosetta in Lion, Mt. Lion, Yosemite, Mavericks and now El Capitan through the use of installing Snow Leopard into virtualization that you hated Rosetta. I will not bother to repeat my rebuttals here but suffice it to say that Rosetta was a minor miracle allowing ALL of the Mac users in 2006 and beyond to transition to an Intel Mac without the need nor expense of updating their software immediately. Both the users and the software publishers were given time to make these transitions.
The problem is that Apple never communicated this need very clearly resulting in posts that I continue to read here every month from someone updating Snow Leopard to El Capitan and discovering that their (PowerPC) software will not function; not even knowing what PPC is and why it does not function!
My work in that area continues for the four groups of Mac Users who have been orphaned by the elimination of Rosetta:
1) Freehand MX users
2) Appleworks database users
3) University Students who receive textbooks (primarily from Pearson) containing CD-ROMs that are PowerPC based; and
4) Hardware drivers needed primarily for pre-press work with legacy hardware that cannot be replaced.
I know you have no sympathy for these users; and that is fine for the focus of your work here. But I do!
