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You can switch to Quicken Essentials for Mac. The options are not pretty: QuickBooks User Guide in QuickBooks, 60 Chapter 3 Importing and.It links to this blog post on the Intuit site.

You can switch to Quicken for Windows. Which includes my 401k, for example. Unfortunately, Mint is basically blind to anything it canвЂ™t integrate with online.

But the Trojan War involved tens of thousands of troops, so IвЂ™m going with HomerвЂ™s definition of вЂњEpicвЂќ.There are really three issues at play here: IвЂ™m not sure how many people are actually affected. You will need to either re-download your investment transactions or manually enter them.вЂќThis is an epic disaster. By the way, to add insult to injury: вЂњYou can easily convert your Quicken Mac data with the exception of Investment transaction history. Switch to Windows? Intuit would get a better response here if they just sent Mac users a picture of a huge middle finger.

This led Intuit to massively under-invest in their Mac codebase, yielding a monstrosity that apparently no one in their right mind wants to touch. (The bar talk between Adobe & Intuit on this mistake must be really fun a few drinks into the evening.) Whoops. After all, Apple was dying. Hey, they thought it was the prudent thing to do then.

IвЂ™ve spent more than a decade in software product management, so I have compassion for how hard that decision must have been. Sometime in the past few years, someone decided that Quicken Essentials for the Mac didnвЂ™t need to track investment transactions properly. Untouchable, unfortunately, means unfixable.

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Intuit had six years to make this migration, and to be honest, Apple is rarely the type of company to support long transitions like this. Fast forward to June 2011, and Apple announces that their latest operating system, Mac OS X Lion, will not support the backwards compatibility software to allow PowerPC applications to run on Intel Macs.With all due respect to my good friends at Intuit, this problem is really IntuitвЂ™s fault. Yes, thatвЂ™s *six* years ago. Apple announces the move from PowerPC chips to Intel chips in June 2005. (See note on the IRS above) ItвЂ™s a bizarre miss given that tracking investment transactions is a basic tax requirement.

But in the end, they called several plays wrong, and now they are vulnerable.Intuit would argue that Apple could still ship Rosetta on Mac OS X Lion. ItвЂ™s not like Apple was going back to PowerPC.If you examine the three strikes, you see that Intuit made a couple of tactical & strategic mistakes here. They dropped support for Mac OS Classic in just a few years.

Apple has announced that Mac OS X Lion will include a change to the terms of service to allow for virtualization. Microsoft did too much of this with Windows over the past two decades, and it definitely held them back at an operating system level.A Proposed Solution: VMware to the rescueI believe there is a possible solution. They do not want to create zombie applications that necessitate bug-for-bug fixes over the long term. They want to push software developers to new code, new user experience, and best-in-class applications. They want to simplify the operating system (brutally).

Many system utilities are distributed with stripped, headless versions of Mac OS X. Quicken 2007 R4 installed / configured to run at launchOK, this solution isnвЂ™t perfect, but it is plausible. Custom вЂњheadlessвЂќ install of Mac OS X 10.6.8, stripped to just support the launch of Quicken 2007.

They are changing the virtualization terms for Mac OS X Lion, so why not change them for Snow Leopard to0.IвЂ™m a daily VMware Fusion user, which is how I use both Windows & Mac operating systems on my MacBook Pro. IвЂ™m guessing that Intuit & VMware might be able to work out a deal here, especially since Intuit would be promoting VMware to a large number of Mac users, and even subsidizing itвЂ™s adoption.This is always the $64,000 question, but theoretically, this feels like really not much of a give on AppleвЂ™s part. They can distribute new images as necessary.The cost of VMware Fusion for the Mac is non trivial, but actually roughly the same price as a new version of Quicken. A VMware image allows Intuit to configure & test a standard release package, and ensure it works.

My sales spiel ends there. IвЂ™m the marketing whiz at IGG Software, so thatвЂ™s where IвЂ™m coming from.IGG makes iBank, an excellent, Lion-ready alternative to Quicken or Mac. So IвЂ™m hoping we can all find a path here.I think this all very interesting, but the post seems to dodge the most obvious solution.First: full disclosure. I buy TurboTax every year, and I use Quicken every week.

Or create a Windows partition, or a Snow Leopard partition, to run a different Quicken version. Yes, each has its limitations or characteristics that make them fundamentally different from Quicken, or from one another.If youвЂ™re committed to both Lion and Intuit, fine вЂ“ run Essentials. Anyone who thinks they are not up to speed hasnвЂ™t been paying attention over the past couple of years.

With Quicken I frequently use the вЂњQuickReportвЂќ feature to either display or print a list of, e.g., payments to a particular payee or payments to a category, for a specific time range, from a particular account or from all accounts. I downloaded a 30-day free, full-feature version and was encouraged when I was able to export my Quicken data file and then import into iBank without a hitch.I obviously have very little experience with iBank, so take what I say below with a grain of salt.The main problem IвЂ™ve found so far is with iBankвЂ™s reporting capabilities. Maybe a future column here can examine a few of those alternatives.Ever since receiving вЂњtheвЂќ notorious email from Intuit 2 days ago about Quicken 2007 going away with Lion, I started looking into iBank4. And that means finding Mac personal finance software that works.

You can select landscape mode and type in a % scale, but it has you effect, you always get a fixed (and quite large size) font in portrait mode.These are вЂњfeaturesвЂќ that should be relatively easy to fix, but at the moment (version 4.2.4) theyвЂ™re a real nuisance.I have not upgraded to Lion yet, but plan to in the near term. Even though thereвЂ™s the usual File>Page SetupвЂ¦ menu item, it doesnвЂ™t seem to work. So, if youвЂ™re like me and have a checking account register that goes back many years, you may get an 80-page printout! Not good if all youвЂ™re looking for is the last month or so.IвЂ™ve found a kludgy way around some of this by using a feature called вЂњSmart AccountвЂќ, which works sort of OK however you canвЂ™t format the printout into landscape mode or even scale it to make it fit on one page. If you try to do a simple print of, e.g., your checking account in iBank you are given no option for selecting a time frame (or range of check numbers).

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