[Hidden-tech] [Hidden-Tech] Alternatives to Quicken

[Ed Bride]

I'm with Jan on this (although I've only been using Quicken for 19 years),
same progression of operating systems. I don't even bother with QuickBooks
for my business, Quicken is quite enough. The updates are cheap enough that
I tend to buy them every time.

Although I don't store the data on a second computer (unless Carbonite
counts), I do have an external drive where an extra backup is stored.
Through disk crashes and other stupid (operator) errors, there have been a
few incidents, but I've never irrevocably lost data. Every time I exit
Quicken, it asks if I want to backup my data; the answer is always yes. 

Ed

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Jan
Werner
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 9:11 AM
To: shel at principledprofit.com; ken at waldenconsultinggroup.com
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] [Hidden-Tech] Alternatives to Quicken


This is the kind of statement that drives me up the wall.

The only way lost data can be unrecoverable is if it was not properly backed
up.  That is the fault of the user, not the software!

For the last 24 years, I have used Quicken Home & Business to handle all of
my personal and business banking records, accounts receivable and investment
accounts. During that period, I have moved from DOS through Windows 95, 98
and XP to my current 64-bit Windows 7.

I only upgrade when there is some compelling reason to do so, but ALL of the
data accumulated over those 24 years has successfully made the transition
through at least 5 different versions of the software.

That does not mean that it has always been smooth sailing, and I have
learned to be wary of the havoc automated online transactions can wreak on a
data file. But Quicken makes it easy to keep daily backups, and given the
critical nature of the content, I am careful to keep copies on a second
computer, as well as on offline media.

I have NEVER had to recover more than a few hours of work during all those
years, and never had any difficulty doing so.

Jan Werner
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shel at principledprofit.com wrote:
>
> It was probably 15 or 20 years ago that Quicken ate an entire year's 
> worth of checkbook register, unrecoverable. At that point I switched 
> to Excel, which has a far less pleasant interface for managing checks 
> but does the record keeping I need. Obviously you can't use it to run 
> a checkbook, but it tracks your activity if you log it in....
>