Intuit = another crappy software company.
We recently bought Brenda a Mac Mini. She’s the banker of the house, paying the bills, balancing the accounts, etc. She also depends on Quicken. Doesn’t everyone?
So, our 4 year old gets to inherit the ol’ PC laptop so he can play his Tonka Trucks Firefighter game (which, BTW, is only $3 at Menards!). No problem, we’ll just copy over the Quicken data and plop in into the Mac version.
Hmm…doesn’t seem to work.
OH! Of course! Intuit decided not allow people do transfer data between the platforms. Apparently, my operating system has something to do with the data structure of their data! Who would’ve thought that in 2005 and the age of the web, a gigantic software corporation couldn’t figure out how to translate data between computers?
Oddly, Apple has a web page about KVM switches that offers a link to Intuit where Intuit supposedly explains how to transfer the files. But this link redirects to Microsoft.
Addendum: So, after more googling, it’s now apparent to me that people are pretty much unanimous in agreeing that Quicken for Mac simply sucks. It has half the features, is incompatible with the PC version, and is missing a ton of automation that the PC version had. In otherwords, it’s a pointless product to use.
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These are the headaches that I’m expecting when I get my mac (hopefully after the macworld expo announcements). I’ve been slowly weening all the data off my PC that I care about onto an external drive. and I don’t really have anything beyond a couple excel spreadsheets that I really value- but I just know there’s going to be something I’m forgetting.
This is probably why i’ve never understood how Intuit could survive. I’ve only experienced Quicken on the mac, and it hurts to use it.
An alternative, while not crossplatform, or full of features as Qucken: ibank
I do find it to be easier to use and navigate through.
um let me fix that link…
ibank
I find it astounding that someone who feels qualified to criticise a software company is incapable of understanding the meaning of ‘PC’ (personal computer). PCs are PCs, whether or not they are loaded with Windows.
David, technically, you are correct. All personal computers are PCs. Here in the states anyway, IBM had the first computers branded ‘PC’, and they had DOS or Windows on them. So the marketplace grew accustomed to PCs being not from Apple.
Hey, why not use a browser-based system and get it hosted — check out http://www.nolapro.com for a totally free accounting system — then you can use it from anywhere if you want to host it with someone else, or run it on your laptop/desktop.