Quicken 2007 for Lion

Do you mean update the Quiken you now have? When Lion came out Apple dropped the use of Rosetta that allowed use of the legacy-compatible software. Software then had to be written without any legacy coding to run. Consumers had to buy new software as older could be simply converted. Quiken was a problem until a new version was released. Check for the version that is Lion compatible.

According to the second discussion on the right, More Like This, quicken 2007 compatible? It should work fine. The last poster in that discussion, baltwo, is very reliable so I would accept his statements.

I updated my Quicken for Lion 2007 to the new 16.1.3 update and it started crashing in Lion.

I went back to version 16.1.2 and am waiting for Intuit to fix/further update it before I move from 16.1.2, which works fine in Lion and I am told in Mt. Lion.

Quicken for Lion 2007 will open data from Quicken 2006 with no conversion needed.

Another option would be to upgrade the Quicken to the new one for Macs. It works so much better that 2007, and opens old Q files.

Go ahead with ML...as you can see from the More Like This discussions, the other users posting are not having problems with Quicken 2007, but be sure to first download any updates Intuit has released so your version is the latest they have. It's like TurboTax from Intuit, buy it and then update before trying to use so actually works 😉

~Bee wrote:

Another option would be to upgrade the Quicken to the new one for Macs. It works so much better that 2007, and opens old Q files.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Quicken Essentials for Mac is generally loathed by the Mac community, which is why the drumbeat lead Intuit to release is "Quicken 2007 for Lion" in March, 2012!

Ralph Landry1 wrote:

...as you can see from the More Like This discussions, the other users posting are not having problems with Quicken 2007, but be sure to first download any updates Intuit has released so your version is the latest they have...

If this is a response to my post, just note that the 16.1.3 update was only released one week ago. There has not been that much time for many of the 16.1.2 users to have updated, let alone see if they have any problems with it.

I would caution away from 16.1.3 for now. I always wait a reasonable amount of time to download an update and see how the community responds to it. This particular update download for me was a premature mistake.

Michael, if you had been on here and following the discussions since Lion came out you would know your statements are counter reality. Essentials came out and was the stop-gap for the Quicken non-compatibility issues until fixes to 2007 were released.

Bee, FHB

Michael -- I updated a friend Mac to ML, and we also updated her Quicken to the new one. She was thrilled with the results, and wondered why she hadn't done it way earlier.

Thanks for sharing

~Bee wrote:

Michael -- I updated a friend Mac to ML, and we also updated her Quicken to the new one. She was thrilled with the results, and wondered why she hadn't done it way earlier.

Thanks for sharing

Bee:

Could you "bee" more specific about that "her Quicken to the new one" is specifically? Thank you.

Ralph Landry1 wrote:

Michael, if you had been on here and following the discussions since Lion came out you would know your statements are counter reality. Essentials came out and was the stop-gap for the Quicken non-compatibility issues until fixes to 2007 were released.

I dispute both of your statements:

1. "...if you had been on here..." - Could you please clarify the time frame you are refering to here, please.

2. Now Bee may have anecdotally found one Quicken 2007 user who now prefers Quicken Essentials. I have never used Quicken Essentials, but I can only go on what I have read over and over again on this and many other forums.

Don't take my word for it: consider these forum statements:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3894608?answerId=18194058022#18194058022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3509222?answerId=17071010022#17071010022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204433?answerId=17025648022#17025648022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3269703?answerId=16765893022#16765893022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3360156?answerId=16736907022#16736907022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3437881?answerId=16535450022#16535450022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3192473?answerId=16535875022#16535875022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3275665?answerId=15977474022#15977474022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3274952?answerId=15974996022#15974996022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3252933?answerId=15900994022#15900994022

... and I could go on and on and on...

The statement I was disputing was:

Another option would be to upgrade the Quicken to the new one for Macs. It works so much better that 2007, and opens old Q files.

Your statement to me was:

Essentials came out and was the stop-gap for the Quicken non-compatibility issues until fixes to 2007 were released.

That is "apples and oranges!"

Now if you want to defend Quicken Essentials for what it offered until the release by Intuit of Quicken 2007 for Lion in March 2012, that is a different issue. I still would dispute that as the "stop-gap" on the following basis.

When Lion was officially released, in late July, 2011, existing Quicken 2007 users could continue to use their PPC version of Quicken 2007 by:

1. Restoring their original version of OS X that they were using before upgrading to Lion.

2. Partitioning their hard drives or adding an external hard drive and installing Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into it and "dual-booting" between Lion and Snow Leopard to continue to operate Quicken 2007 PPC as needed.

These workarounds worked for all Quicken PPC users until users purchased new Macs that came with Lion already installed on them.

Some of these "new Lion Mac purchasers", such as myself, continued to use Quicken PPC on their second or third Macs that still ran Snow Leopard.

For those who only had one Mac that only ran Lion, the next solution was to install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels or VMWare Fusion. And since that was a "pricey" solution, I came up with my Installing Snow Leopard client (with Rosetta) into Parallelssolution, which had its earliest posted incarnations in October, 2011:

[Quicken Deluxe 2002 PPC shown running here - click on image to enlarge]

So Quicken Essentials was hardly the only "stop-gap" solution for those uninformed users of these other options posted here on this forum and even at that for a short period of time, if at all.

And even Intuit admits that when you import Quicken Essentials data into Quicken 2007 for Lion, you lose:

• Budgets
• Reports
• Currency settings
• Category tax line item assignments
• Scheduled transactions
• Financial institution records
• Tags
• Online payee information
• Download references attached to transactions
• Account settings such as Hide Account, and online enabled account user IDs and passwords

So based upon all of these quoted negative comments about Quicken Essentials, I would NEVER advise a current user to use it in favor of Quicken 2007 for Lion, Bee's one friend, notwithstanding!