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Hi, Ken.

I've been actually working with it for less than an hour, so these are only first impressions.

I think I'm going to like Quicken 2010 Deluxe. Overall, it seems just like all the other annual upgrades. Just another few steps up the learning curve.

It took some tweaking of the Preferences to get back to something like the

2009 appearance that seemed very good to me, and I still haven't figured out a couple of things. I got the Account Bar to show cents. I even found out how to "Dock" the side bar ("Dock Side Bar (for wide screens only)"); apparently my 1280 x 1024 LCD screen qualifies as "wide screen", even though it is only 17". But I haven't yet found how to narrow down that side bar; it's about 3" wide, which is about double what it needs to be, cutting into the Register width. This is the right-hand "To Do" bar that holds just a few items, including - for me - just One Step Update and the Show Reminders button. I can adjust the width of the Accounts Bar, but not this Side Bar.

Most of these are just the personal preferences; what bugs me will thrill you - and vice versa.

But a few "features" worry me. The all-inclusive QDF file is a great idea - AND a terrible idea! I'll reserve judgment on this for a while, but I'm just a bit dubious about putting all the eggs in one basket. But it does simplify explaining to Quicken newbies that they must remember to move ALL the related files when using non-Quicken tools to manage the "fileset".

The new Backup scheme will take some getting used to. Since the 1990's, when hard disks were much less reliable, I still habitually make several successive backups every day - after every batch of new entries, every One Step Update, and often in between. This is not really necessary anymore, but I still do it. I installed Q10 just this morning at about 9:30. My BACKUP subfolder has just one automatic backup (at 9:33 am today), but my manual backup folder already has "QDATA-4.QDF-backup", saved at 3:12 pm, along with the earlier original, plus -1, -2 and -3. At 45 MB per file, this could fill up even today's large hard drive pretty quickly! As I've said before; there is a big difference between archives, which might need to be available next year or 20 years from now, and backups, which typically are useful only until the integrity of the current file is assured. My -1 backup is already obsolete, because it has been superseded by -2, which is similarly useless, since I now have -3 and -4. :>(

OK. That's enough for now. Let's reserve further comments until I've lived with it for a while. It's just about time for my FIRST One Step Update to get today's stock quotes and transactions.

RC

Thanks, RC. Your first impressions are appreciated, but I'll be patient and await your later impressions when you know more about it.

Hi John - The Intuit poster (Quick Dale, I think this link should work :

explained to go to the Control Panel/Sounds and do the usual checking off of the settings to 'fix' the reported problem - but that was already done and set up correctly in the initial installation as reported by the others.-------------------------------------------------------------Regards -

- Andrew

The naming convention whereby you ask to append the date is also different and the naming is bizarre as they're no longer in a named sequence. Example:

For Q2009, For a file named 'Andrew', a couple of backups with that option would look like: Andrew_20090703.QDF (plus the other in the fileset).. (no matter how many times one backups up on the 3rd date of July, you'll end up with just one fileset). Andrew_20090704.QDF (plus the others in the fileset) and so -on. Like you, I am accustomed to backing up several times a day, and it would only place one entry in since the same filename was used for each day no matter how many backups one used.

With Q2010, the naming convention for multiple times in *one* day now look like (Assuming you backed up three times in one day): Andrew-18Oct2009-1.QDF-backup (this is the second backup) Andrew-18Oct2009-2.QDF-backup (this is the third backup) Andrew-18Oct2009.QDF-backup (this was the original backup)

for just one day's use with three manual backups. And they don't even collate correctly in alphabetical order! I am afraid of what will happen when Dec comes up which is earlier in the alphabet that Oct and Nov! All the months will be jumbled up if you sort by name now. Well, one can click on the date field column heading. I used to do manual deletes and keep just the last few months worth of files for safety - as R.C. says, I'll have a LOT more, and I think they won't be so easy to manage.

----------------------------------------------------- Regards -

- Andrew

btw, did anyone notice that under the FILE OPERATIONS pulldown to DELETE a file is no longer available in Q 2010? Weird. Am I missing something stupid here? Of course, with just one file (*.QDF) in the "fileset" now, the Windows explorer option to 'delete' really does get rid of a complete "fileset" in one single swoop now, but I am still amazed that they don't have this option available in file operations (just COPY, YEAR-END COPY, and VALIDATE exist. I could have sworn that DELETE was an option previously?)