Sep 10, 2018 - Windows 2016. For current release notes and download links for the latest update, please see. Release R14.12 (US Versions, Jan 2018). Launch the version of Quicken currently installed on your computer. Once launched, go to the help menu and then to the Unlock again option. If you have your Unlock code from either your conformation e-mail or from the Order Status window you can enter it in the blank field.
ALERT FOR QUICKBOOKS AND QUICKEN USERS!!! Updating to the latest Mac OS 10.12 Sierra breaks this software! Apple released this update on September 20. I installed it yesterday on our nonprofit's computer. Now Quickbooks Desktop for Mac 2015 will no longer function.
This morning (one week late) Intuit sent out an email announcing that all their customers have to update to Quickbooks for Mac 2016 to use Sierra. I'm sure that must have come as a complete surprise to the executives at Intuit - Apple upgrading their OS??? Who knew that would happen??? Or d'ya think they waited to announce this on purpose? Calling their customer service line, after 20 minutes on hold I reached a snarky rep who told me the only thing to do was to pay them - the company takes no responsibility for this whatsoever, it just wants your money. I hope some professor will note this for the Business Ethics class. Looking online, there is no workable update for Quicken, either.
I clearly cannot update my personal Mac to Sierra until I find a substitute for 31 years of Quicken personal finance data. I am still using the last functional version of Quicken for Mac, from 2007 - all subsequent versions released by Intuit for the last 10 years were crippled, badly rewritten, and unusable since they lack important basic features in the 2007 version which Sierra also breaks. At least I found that out before updating my personal Mac. Last May Intuit spun off Quicken to a private equity group so we may be waiting years for a useable update, who knows? It's dead, Jim'. The nonprofit is now forced to update Quickbooks, but I am going to do my best to make sure this is the last time Intuit gets any money from me or my clients. This is not an easy decision to make - did I mention the 31 years of data?
Visualize the two words I'm saying to Intuit out loud right now.the first one is four letters beginning with F. Ok, Internet - what competing small business/personal finance software packages do you like??? I know much of this is heading the Cloud, yet I am old school enough to be nervous about handing accounting records off to someplace nebulous. So I at least will need a robust way to back up this information locally, or really, I prefer a desktop version for this.
I think you have that backward. The question is, is Quicken 2007 compatible with Sierra. Roaringapps.com is a good resource for checking compatibility of existing applications with new versions of both OS X and Windows. They currently report no available data regarding this, and conflicting reports on the previous version of OS X. Your best resource for information regarding compatibility of Quicken 2007 is going to be intuit, since it's their software.
My First (jan 2015 Quicken Version For Mac)
Honestly, I seriously doubt if it's going to work. They don't exactly have a stellar reputation of keeping their software updated, especially software that's almost 10 years old. ALERT FOR QUICKBOOKS AND QUICKEN USERS!!! Updating to the latest Mac OS 10.12 Sierra breaks this software! Apple released this update on September 20. I installed it yesterday on our nonprofit's computer. Now Quickbooks Desktop for Mac 2015 will no longer function.
This morning (one week late) Intuit sent out an email announcing that all their customers have to update to Quickbooks for Mac 2016 to use Sierra. I'm sure that must have come as a complete surprise to the executives at Intuit - Apple upgrading their OS??? Who knew that would happen???
Or d'ya think they waited to announce this on purpose? Calling their customer service line, after 20 minutes on hold I reached a snarky rep who told me the only thing to do was to pay them - the company takes no responsibility for this whatsoever, it just wants your money. I hope some professor will note this for the Business Ethics class.
Looking online, there is no workable update for Quicken, either. I clearly cannot update my personal Mac to Sierra until I find a substitute for 31 years of Quicken personal finance data. I am still using the last functional version of Quicken for Mac, from 2007 - all subsequent versions released by Intuit for the last 10 years were crippled, badly rewritten, and unusable since they lack important basic features in the 2007 version which Sierra also breaks. At least I found that out before updating my personal Mac. Last May Intuit spun off Quicken to a private equity group so we may be waiting years for a useable update, who knows?
It's dead, Jim'. The nonprofit is now forced to update Quickbooks, but I am going to do my best to make sure this is the last time Intuit gets any money from me or my clients. This is not an easy decision to make - did I mention the 31 years of data? Visualize the two words I'm saying to Intuit out loud right now.the first one is four letters beginning with F. Ok, Internet - what competing small business/personal finance software packages do you like???
I know much of this is heading the Cloud, yet I am old school enough to be nervous about handing accounting records off to someplace nebulous. So I at least will need a robust way to back up this information locally, or really, I prefer a desktop version for this. Intuit has today released a new version of QuickBooks 2015 that is compatible with macOS Sierra. So again you were wrong when you reported that Intuit told you that all users MUST upgrade to QuickBooks 2016.
Your ranting hatred of Intuit is blinding you. When major macOS upgrades come out there’s always a period of time where glitches and problems arise. That’s why upgrading immediately is not always the best idea, especially when you depend on mission critical software like QuickBooks.
It’s also prudent to do some research about those mission critical apps before upgrading. You apparently just went ahead and upgraded assuming everything would be fine. It rarely is. You are both right. I have two mac's, a late 2015 iMac and a mid-2012 MacBook air. When I went from el capitan to sierra on the iMac, quicken 2007 survived and functions fine.
When I did the same thing a week later on the MacBook, Q2007 did not survive. The icon is still in the dock, but the files won't open and when I try to restore them from time machine nothing happens. Quicken files don't sync through the cloud like modern programs like Pages, so the data I entered into the MacBook since I bought the iMac (about 6 months of data) is lost. I might buy Q2015 for mac for the MacBook but I hate to spend $75 only to find it won't recover the files. I don't think I could have asked anyone at Q or Apple in advance who could have warned me about what happened. Unlike other apps and programs, with Q and mac I always feel like I'm rolling the dice.
I've looked at replacing Q several times but nothing works as well for me. I mostly do budgeting and income/expense detail management and reports, and I rely on the 'split' function to allocate credit card charges. I welcome any advice on how to recover my Q files on the MacBook or on a suitable replacement for Q on the mac. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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An extension of the Common Sense Journalism monthly column by Doug Fisher, former broadcaster, newspaper reporter and wire service editor. From new media to old, much of journalism is just plain common sense. 'In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.' - Unknown (often improperly attributed to Thomas Jefferson) 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.' - Upton Sinclair 'Common sense is not so common' - Voltaire 'Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius' - George Bernard Shaw. I have used Intuit's flagship financial management software, Quicken, for more than a decade. It was a solid piece of software, if somewhat geeky in its earlier versions.
But it worked, and it worked well. And when there was a problem, which was rare, Intuit fixed it with some alacrity. That was then. And it shows how software companies that concentrate more on layering on features and trying to continually get users to upgrade eventually end up in their own quagmire. Quicken is now a bug-filled quagmire.
Just check the, which are peppered with issues, not just 'how to' questions. It began a few years ago, with Quicken 12, as I remember, when Intuit decided that you could not do cash flow accounting in your budget (in other words, enter negative and positive amounts to budget lines), but instead had to go to double-entry bookkeeping, with income and outflow lines for each applicable category.
It also complicated matters with a budget screen that, once you got past January, showed 'January' of what appeared to be the following year - but what really wasn't; if you tried to change that amount you quickly discovered you'd changed the amount for January in the current year. The forums went nuts. Well, users were told, that might be changed in the next edition, but no changes that year. (Some improvements have been made in later editions.) Skip forward to Quicken 15. I've discovered at least three bugs, one of them serious and introduced with a recent update (R7), and a fourth that hasn't affected me but is so serious that it's locked people out of their password-protected data files. The bug is so bad that even the update to 'fix' it (R8) can't necessarily unlock those corrupted files,.
NOTE: This patch cannot unlock files that are already locked. This could not be resolved with product update without adversely impacting the data quality any further. Now, if you are introducing critical flaws with your updates, most of which are applied automatically, you've got a serious, serious issue as a software company. The three bugs I have found fall into the category of one serious and two convenience. With R7, the reconcile function on many registers has stopped working properly. It is failing to always decrement the account totals as you clear individual items.
If you do not notice this and click 'finish' after clearing all your items, you are likely to get an out of balance warning and Quicken's helpful suggestion to put the excess in a 'Misc.' Category - which would royally screw things up even more. (The 'solution,' for now at least, is to click on 'finish later' and then go back to reconcile. Usually the amounts have then properly adjusted.) The R8 update did not fix this. And I am far from alone - there are numerous threads on the customer forums , but no indication Intuit is paying attention. From the beginning, two functions on the calendar have been screwy.
These are more convenience issues, but they worked in previous versions and do save time:. Half the time, if you put in a calendar entry, it does not refresh and show up unless you click to the prior or previous month and then back to the month in which you put the entry. If you right (or CTRL-) click on a calendar date and select Add Reminder, a bill reminder comes up automatically with no option to add transfer or income reminders. To get those, you have to go to the 'Bill and Income Reminders' tab and then click 'Add Reminder.' Not a huge deal, but, again, extra clicks and loss of functionality in previous versions. But my issue goes deeper - it goes to the core of the way Intuit treats customers when they find these kinds of issues.
Does Intuit have a simple bug report form? You can go to the contact page and choose between calling support (I'm now 28 minutes into an estimated one-hour wait) or online chat (which was closed at 3:30 p.m.!
- and which still had a 45-minute wait earlier in the day). I've tried to report one of these through chat before, but what clearly came through was that the person was following a script and really had no clue what I was talking about (basically came down to install and reinstall, which I'd already done). In other words, there's nothing 'quick' about Quicken. To Intuit's credit, it did respond to my plaintive tweets, initially by sending me to the infernal 'contact us' form (that generally tries to shunt you off to the customer forums ).
The options there? Phone or chat. Later, it tweeted a link to where you have to vote for what feature you'd like to see improved just so you can dump all the issues into an 'other' box. It's lame, but I'd encourage every Quicken user with issues to 'flood the zone' so to speak till they take it down.
Good software organizations like Mozilla have. They get customer service - and they don't even charge for their software.
One other thing reflects Intuit's 'just don't get it' situation. Most times, Quicken will update automatically, if a patch is available, when you start it. (This can be both good and bad - just ask the users for whom R6 thoroughly corrupted their files. Even the dreaded Microsoft gives you the option of being notified of updates but not applying them till you say so.) But I've had times when the download does not complete.
So just go and do it manually, right, by finding the 'software update' button off the menus? There are updates, but you have to do a 'one step update,' which also involves updating accounts or portfolios, etc. (at least one of them) so you can get a message when that is complete that there is a software update you can download and apply. How screwy is that?
(And god forbid that somehow it doesn't download correctly that time, either. Then it's back to 'one step update.' ) How hard would it be to put a ' check for updates' entry in the menu as most decent software companies do?
In short, there was a time I highly recommended Quicken. Maybe Intuit will get its act back together someday. Meanwhile, I'm in 47 minutes into holding with the repeated assurance that 'your call will be answered shortly.' Update: One hour, 9 minutes and counting. Update: 1 hour, 32 minutes later. It appears Intuit may have solved the issue with the Mondo patch (which is not noted in the related threads I've been following on the customer forums - and as noted I already had updated to R8) The calendar issues are not fully resolved. I'm seeing fewer needs to refresh but the add reminder issue still is unresolved.
11 Comments: At, said. I thought it was just me. I've used the product since the early 90s and it just keeps getting worse. I thought it was just me as well.
The reconciliation bug ('finish later' then 'reconcile' just to get the sum at the bottom to update) is unacceptable. 3 other issues: Quicken will inexplicably duplicate the original investment in several of my accounts and throw my cash balances off.
It did it again today for a 2009 deposit of 10K, making the cash balance off by 20,000. Fortunately I know where to look to delete the duplicates. I download investment transactions but manually accept them into my register, balancing against the paper statement. I have to hit 'Accept' multiple times to get it to accept the transaction; if I don't watch it carefully, it won't accept it leading to erroneous cash balances. I was downloading transactions for a credit card account, but decided to stop that and begin entering transactions manually from receipts.
Quicken kept the downloaded sums so the thing won't balance now; in one case I needed to force balance it by over $5K. Yes, it still has some bugs, and they seem to be erratic. One time I have to hit refresh, another it decrements the amounts properly. Just never know.
The latest adventure was when Intuit's online investing site wouldn't come up in many foks' browsers. It started with a simple security certificate issue and went from there. A second-year computer science student could have kept it from happening. Now, Intiut has switched the log on to its general access all services logon page. Problem is, there's no longer a logoff button on the investing page that shows all your stock holdings etc.
Rather an issue if you access it from a public computer. Sometimes if you click on 'account settings,' your profile with a logout button comes up and you can log out. But other times, you just get the sign-in page again. (But you aren't signed out; just hit the investing.quicken.com link again and you get taken right in without sign-in.) Sigh.
I've used Quicken since Version 1. I've been lucky to avoid problems most problems until the latest update. I can no longer add online access to an account because Quicken's list of accessible financial institutions is blank. Quicken screen refreshes after downloading updates are horribly slow.
Apparently Quicken deleted an old credit card, because now all transfers to that card are marked 'unknown account'. I've tried to install the Mondo Patch as Quicken recommended, only to find it won't install because it complains I already have the latest version. Other minor glitches keep popping up. I have searched and searched for a workable alternative to Quicken. Haven't found it. Haven't tried the ones that cost thousands of dollars.
Sure hope the new owners of Quicken straighten this out some. Further follow-up as I have been fighting intransigent problems since the latest Q release: Q tech support was unhelpful. I made the mistake of posting the Q forums. Don't waste your time people! Their suggestions are not only wrong-headed and useless, they can be dangerous to the health of your computer.
I do so wish there was a workable alternative to Q. I have been using Quicken for some time, investments and keeping track of small rental business, unfortunately I upgraded to quicken 15 and found that in order to use my data files I must enter a password, quicken or anyone else can tell me why, I understand the product itself registration but not the files, I will try to find my quicken 14 files, take back the 15 and 16 upgrade to Costco, and return the Mac Quicken I ordered. What a same to mess with a fairly reliable program. They must of hired the know 'it's working let's fix it people' Any body know a work around the file registration password problem?
@Jeff Johnson - I am not positive this will work for you, but in my case the requested password has been the same as my password login on quicken.com. If you don't remember your quicken.com password, there is undoubtedly a password reset procedure to change that password (which I would hope would then work on your local install). The only password I know of for quicken that is purely local is the vault password, but you shouldn't need that to finish an install. I want to avoid assigning a password for ea ch data file, I do not use the download feature so do not need that security, just want to manually enter data like I did before 15., if I do not register can I eliminate the password deal when loading my quicken data files? AFAIK, you cannot avoid the password. I think Quicken uses it to validate your license.
Once the license is validated, you shouldn't need to enter the password again if you don't use online features. Disclaimer: I'm not a Quicken tech support guy - just reporting how it seems to work for me. I have been using Quicken for decades and have noticed the same.
Each new version, which you are periodically forced to update to, brings more problems and frustration. Things just don't work, don't get fixed. Worse, you can end up with data being lost/screwed up. And, their support is just a path to higher blood pressure and wasted hours. My problem is with the most recent update R11.18.
I used to back up every time I exited. Now I try to leave it open all the time for fear of losing all my accounts. (Unfortunately, when using Adobe (another company that has messed with their program tooooo much!) it constantly crashes and I have to reboot.) Quicken can't find my data file, or it says it's in use somewhere else.
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