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Quicken for Mac being rewritten

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-really- hope Intuit get this right Intuit. Whilst there's been a slew of personal finance apps for the Mac recently, none of them have the depth of Quicken. Its single killer feature, the financial calendar, simply doesn't exist in any other version.

I've emailed Intuit to request multicurrency support for any new version, and so get the UK support I need. Has a snowball's chance in hell of reaching the right people I suppose, but I'm going to throw that snowball anyway.

Cheers, Ian (modified slightly from an earlier post by me in uk.comp.sys.mac)

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Ian McCall
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So do I. But I am not encouraged, since so far there has been zero mention of the ability to directly import a Quicken for Windows data file.

In Quicken for Windows, features were removed from the financial calendar in the QW2006 release. It appears that Intuit does not think the financial calendar is an important feature, if they are slowly reducing its features.

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bjn

Have you tried this one? If so, what did you think of it?

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bjn

Whilst

As I remember, I tried this some time ago and after over 20 minutes of it trying to import my Quicken data (spinning beachball) I force quit and gave up. It may well have improved since then however, that was around the middle of last year.

I've tried just about all of them, and the single feature I need - show me how much money I'm going to have on a specific day a la Quicken's financial calendar with balance graph - is not available on any of them. That's it - that's the one feature I really cannot live without.

Cheers, Ian

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Ian McCall

That's a feature I liked as well. However, Intuit has removed functionality from that feature in Quicken for Windows 2006 (or it may have been 2005).

I have written Intuit's customer service about it, and the reply that I got back was the functionality removal was not a bug, it is working as designed.

Complacency. Lack of customer focus. That's the disease that Intuit has.

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bjn

You are -joking-. Really? That's gone? I'm flabbergasted. That's the single reason I have rejected every other accounting package over the years - I'm serious, it's that important to me.

That truly does smack of it, yes. Looks like I'm on VMware/Quicken 2002 for a -long- time to come then.

Cheers, Ian

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Ian McCall

Now it only works for cash accounts. It used to work for any account.

I used to have the calendar graph display the total of my checking and credit card accounts, so I could see when I use the credit card too much.

From Q2005 onward, I cannot put the credit card balances into the total for the financial calendar graph.

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bjn

That's annoying - I also put any card balance on the graph. Hmm. Ah well, here's hoping the rewrite might bring something I'm interested in then.

Cheers, Ian

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Ian McCall

I had other words besides "annoying"... Think about it, I pay for a product upgrade, only to see features that I use be removed in the new version.

The gutting of the financial calendar balance graph and the removal of stock price trimming... I have to wonder what bright spark at Intuit thought the removal of those was a good idea.

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bjn

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