Q2009: The worst ever?

mfa wrote in news:a6117696-85bf-4599-be1c- snipped-for-privacy@r27g2000vbn.googlegroups.com:

I disagree with your conclusion. At least, I have had only minor problems with my version, Q2008 US DL. I think/hope that your problems are due to minor data corruption, brought to the fore by the conversion to the newer (Q2009) data format - the idiots at Intuits marketing insist that the data format gets changed every so often so that there is no backwards compatibility.

IMNSHO the best soltion for you would be to copy all data to a new file name (from within Quicken). I think this removes lost space from edited transactions etc, and makes the file set better manageable for Quicken. Try it, what would you lose?

I will have to disagree with your statements re Q2009.

I also have been using Q since 1990. I routinely run a file with partial data from 1990 and full data for all years 1990 to present.

I also "upgraded" from Q2006 to Q2009 some 4 months ago. I have seen none of the problems you describe. Q2009 has run flawlessly on the computer under WinXP SP3.

That is not to say if I had my druthers I would choose Q09 over Q06. Many features I would prefer the way they were on Q06. I have seen few, if any, new features in Q09 that I use. But, as I said, as a program, Q2009 has performed flawlessly.

That's not my view at all. Like each new version of Quicken, 2009 has very few improvements over the previous one, but it is certainly not worse.

I've been running Quicken 2009 almost every day since it was released. I have *never* had that experience.

I have never had that experience either.

I can't tell you what has caused your problems, but it's something specific to your situation. Don't blame it on Quicken.

mfa wrote in news:a6117696-85bf-4599-be1c- snipped-for-privacy@r27g2000vbn.googlegroups.com:

Completely agree.

Completely agree.

Mine won't freeze, but once it's decided it won't download transactions any more, you're right.... Task Manager is the only way to go.

I really wish there was, because I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Hmmm... I posted detailed responses to three of the replies here last Thursday and none of them showed up. Oh well...

On a brighter note, I may have found help for my bad Quicken database issue --

My desktop PC runs XP, Service Pack 3. No amount of copying, validating, or super-validating within Quicken could clean up the broken Scheduled Transactions. I installed Quicken on my laptop, which runs Vista, Service Pack 1, and took my files over to that machine and did a super-validation. Voila! The broken Scheduled Transactions were removed and they stayed removed. I then brought the files back to my XP machine and they have stayed intact for the days since then.