Comments on: Mac Quicken Set for 2010 Release

By: Frustrated User

Frustrated User — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:52:01 +0000

I have had lots and lots of problems switching to Quicken from Money like Maria. I lose reconciliations at least every other month. Tech support is always telling me that I must be accessing a backup account by mistake. But I back up on removable drives that I disconnect before using the files again. It’s enough to make me go back to paper!

By: JIm Walton

JIm Walton — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:40:19 +0000

I am sorely disappointed in Quicken Essentials for Mac 2010. You can’t log in your investments as in previous versions, you can’t track your investments as in previous versions, you lose your memorized transactions – what kind of lousy “upgrade” is this? I think it’s awful. It’s just a basic spreadsheet. Not at all worth the money, and just a very substandard software.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:42:41 +0000

I saw the posting about Prospects from Apple and will try that out. I have been using Quicken 2003 on my Macbook and it is starting to do weird things, like losing my recent reconciliations, and not entering scheduled transactions. Does anyone else have comments about Prospects?

By: c-dude

c-dude — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:40:13 +0000

My mother-in-law had some problems with her Quicken 2006 (which has been running great for 2-3 years on her iMac under Parallels), and it took all of one evening testing out the new Mac Quicken to go screaming back to the Windows version. Hopefully they honor that 60-day guarantee, maybe she can apply the money to the current 2010 version.

By: jerrymel

jerrymel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:50:14 +0000

Never mind. I figured it out. I just had to pull the files into a directory on the VM Ware C: drive instead of where there were on Mac drive.

By: jerrymel

jerrymel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:07:28 +0000

I just got my Mac and was planning to go total immersion and not run any windows-based programs…that is until I tried using Entourage instead of Outlook and Quicken Essentials versus the PC version.

So I installed VM Ware and both are working fine except when I open Quicken it always asks me if I am a new or existing user and to select a data file. If anyone has a fix for this please let me know.

By: Taximerv

Taximerv — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:02:50 +0000

i look at quicken but it is not for uk market i like money dance seems a nice little program but i seem to get on with fortora fresh finance works well
had no problems for just general bank software it is good worth trying

By: nrns

nrns — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:17:27 +0000

I like Mint also, but quits using it as it can’t pull in citizens bank info and that was my major bank. Hopefully now that Quicken owns it that will change. Citizens trusts Quicken but not Mint, when actually Mint is a far superior program

By: Xairbusdriver

Xairbusdriver — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:48:36 +0000

I’m out-a-here! Between Quicken and my bank and how Quicken handles the QIF imports, I quit! I tried to simply create a new file (despite the warnings by Quicken) and start over with a known balance as of 12/1/2009. So I figured the “Export…” of ‘All transactions with Accounts, categories and classes selected for November through today would grab 99% of every thing. Well, at least I got the transactions, sort of: no splits, no Payee/Category/Class data, only one account. I’m starting over with Money Dance (it imports QIF files fine and handles inserting them much easier and more intuitive than Quicken, IMHO). I don’t use/need the securities and some of the other esoteric niceties of Quicken. It’s done well for me for 10+ years, but Intuit’s total lack of support for a growing segment of their market seems unchanging, not to mention insulting. So long, good luck guys, see you on the other side! ;-)

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:11:18 +0000

Can it be used by Canadians? I looked at mint.com and it appears to be American based only.