I have an old Quicken 6, I hope to gravitate to an Apple machine. I only use it for home, but would like to run Quicken on the Apple machine, but need to be able to transfer my old files. Is it a can do? I know that Quicken6 will not run but I would be happy with another program. By the way I am a resident of the UK, so I deal in & not $!
Quicken with Mac
Aug 10, 2011
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Moonraker wrote in news:j1ua82$vkh$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:
AFAIK, there is no more a Quicken for the UK. In the US, Quicken for Apple suffers greatly, if it isn't dead. But not all is lost, late versions of US Quicken can run multicurrency but downloads need to go through US institutions, I believe. There is also a Canadian version, I think. If your old data are from a UK version of Quicken or from a US version 6, converting into new version's data will be practically impossible.
Others may have more or better advice ...
If you're happy enough with another program, then look to export to QIF and have apps like Moneydance or iBank handle things for you. They both have trials so you can see if they work for you, and they're both multicurrency (I'm UK-based myself).
The export might be tricky, but you could always look at QIFMaster which can handle a lot of the cleanup.
An alternative is to carry on running Quicken, but in a virtual machine. The free VirtualBox would do the trick, but you'd need a copy of Windows to install into it. Tat way you carry on running any Windows software that hasn't survived the transition - I, for instance, run Quicken 2011 like this - the Windows copy, which is the last Windows application I use.
Cheers, Ian
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