[Hidden-tech] Ugh: Lion won't support older Quicken

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:37:01 -0400 Annamarie Pluhar <ria_amp at mac.com> wrote:

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> Today's news from MacWorld.. Apple is abandoning Rosetta which means that I won't be able to continue to run Quicken 2006 once I have to do the upgrade.  [And we all will end up upgrading eventually.] 
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> Now, some years ago I wasted a weekend trying to use iBank. It never did reconcile my accounts and I couldn't figure it out so I abandoned the effort. I was disappointed as I'd love to support a good Apple product. (And I find Intuit's efforts to make a mac product ugly.) One thing I like about QUicken is that it really does prevent one from accidentally deleting a transaction. IBank didn't have the same solidity, I felt. 
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> So, I'd love to know what the rest of you mac users think about all this. I do count on Quicken to track expenses for taxes, and since I enter all transactions, I have a good sense of what money I have/don't have. I don't download transactions. I've thought I might be in the dark ages and that it's time to modernize my methods. Anyone want to do a HT session on managing simple finances on a Mac without Quicken? 

I don't use a Mac, but I do use GnuCash on my Linux system.  GnuCash is
also available for MS-Windows AND MacOSX and there are a bunch of MacOSX
people on the gnucash-users mailing list.  I'd recomend switch to the
*open source* GnuCash program.  It is definitately up to managing
'simple expenses'.

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