Wonder how you managed to do that. Quicken backs up its database frequently and by default keeps the last 6 backups, although you can change that number. I have been using Quicken for over 27 years and have financial records going back to 1/1/1990 in it -- tens of thousands of transactions in dozens of checking, business and investment accounts, many of them long dormant and hidden from sight, but still available when needed. That database has migrated through at least 10 different editions of the software without a hitch. It is also amazingly efficient: with all that data, the size of the file is currently under 50MB, so there has never been any excuse not to keep offline backups, Interestingly, while it kept QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint, Intuit sold off Quicken to a private investment company last year. So far, the new owners seem committed to maintaining and even improving the software. Jan Werner __________ Shel Horowitz wrote: > I used to use Quicken (personal bookkeeping product from the same > company) to manage my checkbook registers, for three or four years. It > was easy to use and had some nice features. Then the program managed to > eat an entire year's checkbook registry, and the company was no help at > all--and this was before Carbonite existed. So I wouldn't even consider > QB. I did use their now-defunct payment system because the transaction > fee was 50 cents no matter how large the transaction. > > I've been managing my checkbooks in Excel ever since. Not as elegant but > it does the job, and the data seems much more robust. > > > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > _http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809_ > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > <http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/> > http://transformpreneur.com <http://transformpreneur.com/> > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com > <mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com> * 413-586-2388 <tel:413-586-2388> > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: > Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) > > _________________________________________________ > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Ira Bryck <ira at fambizpv.com > <mailto:ira at fambizpv.com>> wrote: > > Hello- my quickbooks 2011 for Mac kept quitting; followed their > recommendation to upgrade to 2016, same problem; now they say > upgrade to 2017, or pay $364 for one year of tech support, so they > can use 3^rd party tools to fix damage to files (as they diagnose- > not corrupted, but damaged- from power interruption?) – they are > really pushing the tech support, and wondering if there’s any local, > less expensive, less vested interests person in the area?____ > > __ __ > > __ __ > > *Ira Bryck____* > > *Family Business Center of Pioneer Valley____* > > *447 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002____* > > *www.fambizpv.com <http://www.fambizpv.com/> 413-835-0810 > <tel:(413)%20835-0810>____* > > __ __ > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > <mailto:Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members <http://www.hidden-tech.net/members> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >