Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: BreadWithSpam@fractious.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Future of Quicken? Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:14:50 -0500 Organization: dyslexic agnostics unsure about a dog Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <1jxkfzp.1sb94vnqymx0N%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com> <0001HW.C9978893019E6CB6B02919BF@news.astraweb.com> <1jxnha6.15w7fs8r8iz1wN%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com> <1jxne2h.1m7umynzkhs7yN%nospam@see.signature> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1299356091 29763 166.84.1.2 (5 Mar 2011 20:14:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:14:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Os91pZTHu06uIlWVA02vVE3gUgc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.apps:429 nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) writes: > 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.