Apparently you are unaware of version 16.2.3 which specifically fixes this problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26297580#26297580
Apparently my time is worth more than the $15 cost of Quicken 2007 for Mac is to you...
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Apparently you are unaware of version 16.2.3 which specifically fixes this problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26297580#26297580
Apparently my time is worth more than the $15 cost of Quicken 2007 for Mac is to you...
Have you looked at MoneyDance? I use it and have been very satisfied. It's not perfect but it is pretty good. I do know you can set currency in it and I think date format.
Ironically I have just spent the past few hours trying MoneyDance out and it is certainly my favourite that i have tried so far. Its still very US based but as I simply wish to enter in my expenditure and income and compare the 2, along with a visual expression of what I spend and how it varies from month to month, this seems to be able to handle it. 
First, THANK YOU MichaelLAX for being in this thread. Lots of great helpful information.
Second, tried to buy Quicken 2007 but the link does not work. Any suggestions?
Sadly there doesn't seem to be any orientated towards the UK market
Im intrigued and wish I had the option of trying Quicken 2007 or 2015
Im intrigued and wish I had the option of trying Quicken 2007 or 2015
I've been using See Finance. http://scimonocesoftware.com/seefinance/features.html
It's workflow isn't as convenient as even Quicken 2007, but it's reasonably robust. In particular I want to be able to track investments as well, and it does a pretty good job of that.
I'd say it's got it's quirks, but at least it's in active development unlike Quicken.
It's workflow isn't as convenient as even Quicken 2007, but it's reasonably robust. In particular I want to be able to track investments as well, and it does a pretty good job of that.
I'd say it's got it's quirks, but at least it's in active development unlike Quicken.
Well I had been a Quicken user for 15+ years, and I have watched it go from bad to worse over the last 10. Most recently it was actually screwing up my account records. When I searched around for an alternative, I came up with CountAbout. It does everything I need to keep track of my accounts. I never did use Quicken for investment tracking, so this was not important to me.
What was important was the ability to access my info from my phone. Of course you can do this with Quicken if you go the "sync with the cloud" route, but if you are going to do that why not have it in the cloud in the first place? I find it liberating not to have to worry about a locally-based database, with all the backup implications.
I have been an "early adopter" of Countabout for almost a year now, and I have to say that I am very happy with the product, its capabilities, and the incredibly rapid support response. For me there is no looking back.
I have not opened Quicken for at least 6 months. I am not concerned with importing all my old Quicken data. I keep it around for historical reference purposes, but that's all.
Of course CountAbout has just released the Quicken import feature, for those who need it, along with a limited inclusion of investment balances, and multi-factor authentication.
I'm very happy with CountAbout, and as long as they keep it as clean and light as it is now, I'm sure I will stay with it.
What was important was the ability to access my info from my phone. Of course you can do this with Quicken if you go the "sync with the cloud" route, but if you are going to do that why not have it in the cloud in the first place? I find it liberating not to have to worry about a locally-based database, with all the backup implications.
I have been an "early adopter" of Countabout for almost a year now, and I have to say that I am very happy with the product, its capabilities, and the incredibly rapid support response. For me there is no looking back.
I have not opened Quicken for at least 6 months. I am not concerned with importing all my old Quicken data. I keep it around for historical reference purposes, but that's all.
Of course CountAbout has just released the Quicken import feature, for those who need it, along with a limited inclusion of investment balances, and multi-factor authentication.
I'm very happy with CountAbout, and as long as they keep it as clean and light as it is now, I'm sure I will stay with it.
Not sure if everybody here is aware already, but Intuit announced a few weeks ago that they are planning to sell off the Quicken products. They are trying to put a good spin on it, but it seems to me that Quicken's future is very uncertain now.
I have been looking for alternatives as well (my current Quicken version will "sunset" next year). So far the one I like best is Moneydance. In some quick tests I did it seemed to have the least amount of problems importing QIF files exported from Quicken, although it would still be a lot of work to correct years worth of transactions (removing duplicates, fixing transfers etc.). What I particularly like about it is that it is a cross-platform application, and that it doesn't have a "sunset" where it will stop working, so there is less chance of getting stuck in a dead end in a few years again.
I have been looking for alternatives as well (my current Quicken version will "sunset" next year). So far the one I like best is Moneydance. In some quick tests I did it seemed to have the least amount of problems importing QIF files exported from Quicken, although it would still be a lot of work to correct years worth of transactions (removing duplicates, fixing transfers etc.). What I particularly like about it is that it is a cross-platform application, and that it doesn't have a "sunset" where it will stop working, so there is less chance of getting stuck in a dead end in a few years again.
There might be some Filemaker darabase solutions out there, if you are prepared to install Filemaker. However I looked around when I switched to OSX ten years ago and there was nothing to suit me then.
I ended up installing Dosbox in OSX so could keep an ancient DOS app going - Open Access (no relation to M$ Access). I created my own accounts/payroll/Australain tax database in Open Access in the 90s and have been waiting for a modern app to do the same that does not cost a big business price.
I ended up installing Dosbox in OSX so could keep an ancient DOS app going - Open Access (no relation to M$ Access). I created my own accounts/payroll/Australain tax database in Open Access in the 90s and have been waiting for a modern app to do the same that does not cost a big business price.
I was a quicken user since 1994 I used quicken 2007 until the first of the year at that time I jumped over to mint.com & Personal Capital. I am very happy with the two site as my solution. I use mint for my day to day finances and quarterly download the transaction to a excel document. Personal capital is great for managing investments, 401s etc.
Personally I'm very hesitant to keep all my financial data concentrated in some cloud service. One day it may be breached and you find all your data floating around in the open Internet Ashley-Madison-style ...
Cloud aggregation services have the additional problem that, other than e.g. banking web sites, they need to store your actual passwords (as opposed to just a cryptographic hash to compare against) to be able to access your accounts online, which is a very bad practice security-wise.
I must admit, as nice as Mint looks, the thought of simply allowing access to my accounts seems to step back in security of my accounts. Despite the bad reviews on the App store, I have just downloaded iFinance which to be honest is quite nice to use once I got used to it. I did actually favour MoneyDance at one point but the Pie Charts looked dreadful and oval shaped across my iMac which let it down for me.
How is iFinance working out for you? I looked at it but if I was going to go back to a desktop database I would like to be able to import my quicken data. Looking at the demo it seemed that was not a option.
Its working out OK for me to be honest. Im sure like everything else, its not everyones cup of tea, but I am liking it. There is an option to import quicken data along wth several other options. Not sure how well it does this as I have imported nothing.
It really appears that "everyone" is going to online services these days, and, frankly, I don't trust them! Microsoft left the business (Microsoft Money) some years ago for that reason, and now it looks like Intuit will as well? I'm not impressed with the move to the cloud for all services.
My Quicken also expires in 2016 and I'm faced with the additional hurdle that it runs in a Windows XP virtual machine so I'm facing both a Quicken '16 purchase and a Windows 10 purchase. I think I'll give Moneydance a try.
I had the same situation happen to me. Quicken 2015 came out, and magically my Quicken 2007 downloads stopped working. Coincidence?
I went back several months later to pull some information in Q2007, and the download issue is fixed. I'd suggest trying it.
I've given up. Quicken 1 me 0. I spent too much time converting to go back. I agree Q2007 is a better program overall (but is still very buggy.)
Another happy iBank user here. Been using it for several years now without any issues in a long time. way back when iBank 3 was very slow, but 5 is just fine. Syncs with the devices where necessary.
I've been using iBank for 5 years and hate it to this day. At the time, it was the best alternative to Quicken I could find. After reading this, maybe I'll try MoneyDance again. iBank support sucks and I refuse to keep giving them money for bug fi update. I'm using version 4 FWIW.
Just a follow-up on this: I decided to give Moneydance a serious try and migrate all my transactions over from Quicken. Exporting a QIF from Quicken and importing it to Moneydance was easy enough. However, due to the limitations of the QIF format there is no way for Moneydance to detect transfers between accounts with 100% accuracy, so there were quite a few duplicate transactions where it hadn't "guessed" right. Fortunately I could eliminate many of them in bulk using the Find&Replace extension. I also have a foreign-currency checking account which created some headaches because the exchange rates in transfers weren't always correct. All in all it cost me a few hours of my weekend to get all the balances correct.
It cost me another hour or so to set up automatic online import via Direct Connect, mostly because you have to do it for every account individually (12 accounts in my case), even if you have multiple accounts at a single bank. But once set up, it works well and seems actually faster than Quicken. Confirming transactions after importing is a bit different from Quicken (particularly for transfers between accounts), but works well once you get used to it. One limitation to be aware of is that Moneydance has no equivalent to Quicken's "Express Web Connect"; it only supports "Web Connect" and "Direct Connect". No issue for me though because I didn't use it anyway (mainly because I didn't like giving Intuit access to my online accounts).
I haven't really dug into the budgeting function (don't use it) and reporting options yet, but at first glance I didn't notice any glaring omissions. I use personal finance software mostly to track expenses and net worth, as well as to keep track of my investment accounts, calculate the cost basis for securities etc. It works well for these things.
I also tried transferring my data files from the Mac to a Windows computer and can confirm that the two versions are fully compatible. One license is good for several computers in a household, including Mac OS, Windows and Linux machines. There is also a mobile app that you can sync via Dropbox (with end-to-end encryption), but I haven't tried that.
If you are considering it, I'd recommend to use it in trial mode for a while and see if it works for you (the trial version is fully functional, but only allows up to 100 manually entered transactions). It does things a little different from Quicken and takes some getting used to.
Personally I purchased a license yesterday and will now run it in parallel with Quicken for a few weeks. If I encounter no serious issues, I will finally ditch Quicken and its stupid "sunset" policy and forced online activation for good.
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Can Dropbox (or a common location, like on a server) be used to access the same data from two computers? That's a critical need for me. Otherwise it looks pretty much ideal.
Yes, you can share the same data files between two different instances of the application (I'm now keeping them on my NAS and can open them from both my desktop computer and laptop). However, you should only access the files from one computer at a time. If you make overlapping changes, the database may become inconsistent. If you use Dropbox or another cloud service, you can also encrypt the database.
Apparently they are also working on a computer-to-computer sync feature, where two instances can work on local copies of the files independently and sync them from time to time:
http://help.infinitekind.com/discus...-peer-to-peer-sync-feature-of-moneydance-2015