Quicken 2009 serie is out

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Gordon Potter Atlanta, GA USA The numeral "2" cybers(at)gmail[dot]com

So I wonder if they're in the stores available for sale yet? I do think I'll sit back and see what some of the early adopters say about what's news, the stability and the like.

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Steve:

Thanks for pointing out the $10 off coupon. I think I'll still wait the two weeks and pick it up at Costco.

Bob

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Amazon.com says it won't ship until Sept. 10 so what's the hurry?

I'm wondering that, as in the past, people who wait will get a better price.

Also, places like Staples often have Quicken bundled with TurboTax for some additional savings.

I'm bypassing 2009, 2008 works fine here and the new features don't look very useful to me, as always, YMMV.

Well, I personnaly took the plunge, because I wanted to upgrade from Deluxe to Home&Business.

So I checked the web, and asked whether they had "cross" edition upgrades, just from Deluxe -> H&B and the day after, I saw that the

2009 edition was out. So I took it. No cross upgrades anyway, I had to buy the full H&B.

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I downloaded yesterday. I normally buy every 2 years. Also, I usually always wait a few months. My computer is a new Dell quad core, 4 GB ram. Did have to re-start then Quicken 2009 Premier ran. Didn't notice any major changes, hopefully there were improvements under the hood. I couldn't find any list of version changes.

I don't see anything that makes it worthwhile for me to upgrade, maybe next year....

Yeah, that's the ticket --- improvements under the hood. :)

Wow - can't wait for everyone to start installing as soon as they can. Quick Quick Quick.

One more time ... DO NOT EVER INSTALL QUICKEN UNTIL THE FIRST SERVICE PACK IS RELEASED ... EVER

Of course, people are free to lose their data (I mean ... do as they willl)

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:41:41 -0700, XS11E wrotf:

No one will "lose their data"!

When Quicken converts a file from a previous version of Quicken ... hold on here, don't get carried away ... Quicken makes a backup of the file it converted.

NO ONE will lose their data by converting to a newer version of Quicken ... merely by the act of converting, or the subsequent act of using the newer version of Quicken.

A user would have to overtly delete all their previous version files, and the backup that Quicken made during the conversion, to "lose their data".

Bull. Every year I purchase and install the initial release of Quicken, and each year my data has been just fine. I've been upgrading each year since Qv3.0 for DOS, and my experience is the same each year. Most everything is fine, and little bugs/annoyances are taken care of with each additional release. Incidentally, the screen flicker issue is completely gone in QP2009, not that it was that big of an issue w/ 2008 ... for me, anyway.

Further, new features take some time to figure out, get used to, and decide what works for me as a user. I've been running QP2009 for less than a week, and I'm already starting to make use of some of the new features which you've already written off as not very useful. I do agree with others that there are some persistent bugs in Quicken which seem to be ignored each year in developing the new version. But name

*one* software company that fixes every bug everyone complains about.

Margaret

Oh, go away........ Statements like that only serve to make us ignore you.....

I've been using Q for over 15 years, upgraded every year and have

*NEVER*, *EVER* lost any data. Q backs up the data before it upgrades. One might not like the interface or feature changes, but lose data?? *NOT!*

"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in news:48b938dd$0$20945$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

I have had issues with corruption several times when upgrading to the then current version of Quicken in the 90s. I didn't lose data then, because ultimately I could validate or supervalidate backed up data, and upgrade the data set anew.

Also, I have had several times data corruption and really messed up data during the use of a version of Quicken. Most recently with Q2006, and even Q2008. Because I keep backups, even very recent backups, that was not much of a problem either. But to say that you never ever lost any Quicken data stretches belief (or you don't use Quicken very much at all).

The best way is to guard against the possibility of data loss is by keeping good and frequent backups. It also may include doing a copy to a new file set every once in a while. That process cleans up (compacts) the data sets, and removes deleted data. This was really necessary to do every 3 months or so, a few years back, at least for me. The concept was made clearest for me with Eudora, where the mailboxes keep ALL the data, and the corresponding table of contents files indicate (among other things) which mails have been deleted. "Compacting" the mailboxes is the process whereby those email that are indicated as being deleted are finally indeed removed from the mailbox file. These things are easy to check in Eudora, since the mbx files are just text, and viewable in Notepad.

Hi, Han.

I often lost data, too, in the 90s. But NOT from upgrading to the newest version. It's just that computer systems, especially hard drives, were much less reliable then. Data corruption was more common in all apps. I got into Quicken in 1990, just as it was converting from DOS to Windows. Back then, out of self-preservation, I formed the habit of hitting the Backup key after almost every data entry in Quicken. Far too often, a computer or hard drive glitch of some kind would cost me everything I had entered and not saved in the past half-hour. But this did not apply just to Quicken; more often my loss would be of the email or newsgroup message I was drafting in OE or whatever mail or news program I was using then, or a long Word or WordPerfect document, or an Excel or Lotus spreadsheet.

But those losses were not from the upgrade process. And, thankfully, they are rare these days.

I still backup after almost every Quicken data entry, but it's just because old habits are hard to break. ; "Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in

I'd love to hear if the flickering and screen redraw problems have been resolved in Q2009. I've used Quicken since switching from MYM many years ago. I never had a problem until I upgraded to a really fast PC with two gig of RAM, and two high end NVidia graphics cards with a gig of video RAM. All that horsepower has slowed Quicken 2006 graphics down tremendously. Displaying any graph which used to be instantaneous now takes several very slow repaints. A net worth chart with 10 years of data, and weekly bars never did finish drawing. It just kept repainting it over and over until I got tired of waiting, and killed the program.

I'd upgrade just for that problem being resolved.

-- Jim

I think you'd be well served trying the product out yourself to see how it handles your specific hardware. You've got 60 days to return the product for a full refund, no questions asked; plenty of time to evaluate your problem.

Jim:

I'm using Q2008 H&B Vista Ultimate 64-bit. 2.4 GHz Quad-core 8GB RAM. My data go back to 1982, well over 100 accounts, >20,000 transactions. If I ask my net worth chart to include everything back to 1982 at weekly intervals, it takes maybe 1-2 seconds. Charting weekly intervals since 1998 is instantaneous.

Bob

I'd love to hear if the flickering and screen redraw problems have been resolved in Q2009. I've used Quicken since switching from MYM many years ago. I never had a problem until I upgraded to a really fast PC with two gig of RAM, and two high end NVidia graphics cards with a gig of video RAM. All that horsepower has slowed Quicken 2006 graphics down tremendously. Displaying any graph which used to be instantaneous now takes several very slow repaints. A net worth chart with 10 years of data, and weekly bars never did finish drawing. It just kept repainting it over and over until I got tired of waiting, and killed the program.

I'd upgrade just for that problem being resolved.

-- Jim