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Later I found that this was a doubling of an actual credit card account that I had opened and closed in the past five years which resulted in a double-posting of the transactions for that account. A new mystery credit card account appeared with my name followed by the word TEMP, but it had a zero balance so I didn’t worry about it. The process took about five minutes during which the familiar account bar on the left-hand portion of the screen progressed from a meaningless gobble of positive and negative balances to finally the exact balances I had in the Windows version. Fourteen years of some pretty complicated financial transactions made me think this couldn’t really work.

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The process created a new data file for the Mac software while leaving the original unchanged and still usable by its Windows counterpart.ĭuring the import process, I watched the progress bar with some trepidation. I was worried that this process would somehow corrupt my existing Quicken for Windows data file, so I made to sure to make a complete backup before proceeding with this import, but I needn’t have worried. I was coming from Quicken 2014 for Windows so I chose that option, found my Quicken data file and clicked proceed. You can either start from scratch or import an existing Quicken file.

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I might waste $75, but if there’s a chance it can work for me, I would be able to leave the PC software world for good. I spent about an hour reading up on the new software and decided to try it. And guess what? The early reviews were positive for a change. Last fall Quicken 2017 for Mac was released. And so I kept using Quicken for Windows along with updates to the VM software and waited.īy last summer, the only PC software I still needed to run on a virtual machine was Quicken. Buggy, lacked many important features, basically a shell of the PC version. New Mac versions of Quicken would come out every year and I would read reviews by unhappy customers lamenting the awfulness of the software. A Mac version of Quicken was available, but it lacked many of the features that the PC version, like investment tracking and budgets. I turned in my work laptop in favor of a MacBook Pro, using a virtual PC software program called Parallels to get access to the short list of PC software titles I still needed: an arcane business intelligence tool for work and … Quicken.

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By 2013 everyone in my family was using a Mac, plus iPhones and iPads. The PC was all business.įast forward another ten years. This was OK because I had compartmentalized the Mac and PC this way: the Mac was for creative work: movies and photos, writing, games, family time. Quicken wasn’t available on the Mac at that time, so I kept my financial records on the Dell. It was fun to return to Apple with a beautiful new iMac at home while I used a Dell laptop for work.

I switched back to a Mac at home in 2003. And remind myself of how little I had back then. I’m sad about that now as I would have liked to revisit the financial transactions supporting both by frugality and spending extravagance of my twenties. erase) your financial history, so in a keystroke, I lost all that meticulous bookkeeping of the previous decade.

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Quicken offered a “feature” back then to archive (i.e. I couldn’t find an easy way to transfer the data file. My data file had grown so large it no longer fit on a 3 1/2″ floppy drive. In the 1990s as Microsoft Windows took hold and the days of the Mac waned, I switched over to the PC version of Quicken. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I would not be in the financial position I am today without the discipline this software cultivates. The discipline of tracking my expenses and using a budget helped me control my spending and keep my focus on long-term financial goals. Back then I used a Mac SE, painstakingly capturing every transaction with the proper income or spending category on a nine-inch black and white screen. I’ve been a user of Quicken personal finance software since 1989. What follows is a history of how I’ve used Quicken and reactions to the most recent version of Quicken 2018 for Mac. In my case, that system has been the venerable software tool Quicken. Like an accounting system at the office, a well-managed home needs its own financial record keeping. Applying finance strategies I’ve used in managing businesses to my personal finances has paid dividends.

I’ve always tried to be disciplined when it comes to money, and as a CPA and business planner as my chosen vocation, managing my own money comes pretty naturally. Personal financial management is important to me.

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An update to this review for Quicken 2019 for Mac is available here.