Re: Future of Quicken?

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nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) writes:
> <BreadWithSpam@fractious.net> wrote:

>> Alternatively, just choice a point in time, say the beginning
>> of 2011, and give up your history before then.  Start from scratch
>> with one of the alternatives and live with the loss of history.
>
> Seems to me you overstate it in saying that you "give up your history
> before then." I did the start from scratch thing (using MoneyDance in my
> case). But it doesn't mean I lost all my history. It is still there in
> the Quicken file (Windows version - I never found the Mac one
> acceptable).

If Quicken2007 ceases to work (there is talk of Rosetta not
coming in Lion), then keeping your history in your Q2007 file
is useless.  And as I said, importing old data into anything
else (including the Windows version of Quicken) may ential a
huge mess, as the process requires the QIF file.

-- 
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.

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