I want to make the switch from my Windows XP machine to a PowerMac G5 runing OSX. There is only one thing now holding me back, and that is my 15+ years of financial data stored in Quicken (2005 now).
I once had to do the reverse with my wife's Quicken data, going from a Mac to XP. We followed the instructions on the Quicken support site. She had much less data and yet it was a complete mess, with a lot of manual fixups required and a significant amout of data lossage. The Mac and Windows versions of Quicken seem almost to be totally different products, to the point where one version can't read the other version's files, even when the file systems themselves are compatible.
Has anybody managed the conversion from Windows to Mac with huge Quicken files and survived? Does anyone have any tips other than the instructions on the Quicken support site?
I'm thinking now that probably the easiest and most reliable thing would be to run the Windows PC emulator inside of MacOS, and run Quicken inside of that. Is that insane?
Thanks for any comments -- Mark