Quicken on Laptop While Traveling

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Maybe this would be a case for Mint ...

I don't understand why you don't just create the dummy accounts on your laptop, and update them manually while traveling, then just download the transactions from your FI to your home machine, when you return?

Are you going to be gone too long for that?

Well, I think that ...

1. ... I don't like my financial info on anyplace other than my devices - that is, I don't like Qkn Online nor Mint concepts.
2. ... there is no sync connection nor export/import between PC-based traditional Quicken and Mint, but I could be wrong - not 1st time.
3. ... it' a pity that the Landware Intuit relationship is dissolved. I use Pocket Quicken extensively as I travel far, wide and long. My smartphone has the accounts I want (checking & 2 credit cards) without acct info to id them and I leave behind investment and other accounts, although I do carry 10 years of history and use the payee, category, class/tag & memorized transaction lists - one does indeed return to the same places. I can run reports, finds, and when I return I sync with PC-based Qkn.

That's my 3-cents worth (inflation, I guess).

Al

"Al" wrote in news:r8mdnZ8Gfbl7pivWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@posted.echolabs:

I hear you Al, but my rebuttal would include that it might be possible to steal or eavesdrop from your phone as well. I tried pocket Quicken once, very, very long ago, and was severely underwhelmed.

To the OP (Ken Blake): Did you consider Mint?

I read you Han, and, indeed my phone can be stolen or lost (which us geezers are prone to do together with car keys and the like), but no one can eavesdrop on me as I don't use the internet features of the smartphone (too cheap - me, certainly not the internet connection), preferring borrowing PCs in businesses visited, or using - just for unimportant mail [temporary email address just for trip lentgh] or Googling - any available and sufficiently cheap internet cafe.

Al .

No. I didn't really want to start with a whole new program.

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

As others have mentioned, you could download everything on your return, but while on the trip keep up with your account(s).

Han wrote in news:Xns9D4EA982A5CCEikkezelf@207.246.207.163:

But mabe I didn't understand your needs.

Ken Blake wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

DOn't take this the wrong way, but isn't a VACATION meant to allow the family to get away from the daily grind, have a good time, and not worry about such things as bills, etc?

My wife would have a fit if I took my laptop on vacatioon and did Quicken updates nightly.

Why don't you look into a smart phone and an app or two if you really need to follow the bank acount. That way, you can lay around on the beach and it looks like you are doing something cool....

I used to never read a newspaper or watch TV while on vacation, nothing ever happened that wouldn't wait until I returned home....

Sure. I'm not looking for a way to spend a lot of time on this at all. But I am willing to spend a few minutes each day.

I always take my laptop--not for Quicken, but to stay in e-mail contact with my friends and family.

Back in the days before I had a laptop, I used to spend *more* time buying, writing, and mailing postcards.

I have a Quicken install on a notebook I take traveling. Quicken has all the account numbers and passwords. I protect it by putting the Quicken file in a TrueCrypt encrypted virtual drive. The Quicken data is protected by 256 bit AES encryption and a long pass-phrase.

Another option is to put the Quicken file on an encrypted USB thumb drive. Some of those have encryption built-in. I have used TrueCrypt with thumbdrives that do not have encryption built-in.

That is also what I do with my notebook. I think a thumbdrive is even more likely to be lost than a notebook.

I use truecrypt (truecrypt.org) to create an encrypted volume on my desktop machine. This volume looks and acts like a hard disc volume. It uses advanced encryption to protect data. I have used this successfully for a few years with no problems and feel comfortable with it use and protection of my data. The only caveat is do not forget the password (or phrase) you use to access the file, as there is no way to recover the data in an encrypted volume without it. There is not back door access to the volume. Many attempts have been made to access the data using Truecrypt with out success.

I put all of my critical files, including Quicken data files, into this volume and routinely transfer the file between machines whenever I travel.

Some will say that any encrypted volume can be broken > I run Quicken 2010. I would like to do the following for when I'm on

Do you use a hidden or a standard volume in True Crypt?

I use the standard volume. Thought about the hidden feature but felt the standard was good enough. I also named the volume something very innocuous so as not to alert anyone as to it true use, although it does have the Truecrypt extension.

That is what I do too. "One day" I will look at using the hidden volume instead.