Bill, Oh my gosh, that is a solution but one that takes a real bit of work. Never thought of this, but will consider. Can you believe Intuit? What a cruddy company.
John On May 29, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > On May 29, 2012, at 21:12 , John Robinson wrote: > >> I need to revisit the Quicken for Lion. June 30th approaches so if I want >> all the items in iCloud I will need to migrate to Lion. The only program >> that has kept this one machine on Snow Leopard is Quicken but alas they were >> such good citizens and made an upgrade available to us. > > I've gotten around the cannot-use-Quicken-anymore problem by > > . Backing up my hard drive (very important) > . Creating a new 35GB partition (35GB figure taking out of the blue...wanted > something bigger than 20GB but not so much as to shrink the space on my main > partition). > . Installing Snow Leopard on the new partition, using the setup assistant to > migrate my information over from the main partition (but not to copy over > apps). It is important to migrate information over from the main drive to be > sure that your permissions for files are OK regardless which OS you boot up. > > I then started up under the Snow Leopard on the new partition, and cleaned > out some startup items that pointed to applications no longer on that > partition. Finally, I started up Quicken. All is fine [1], except that it is > a pain to need to restart the computer to put anything into/look anything up > in Quicken. > > There were suggestions given on this list, such as iBank and the like. I > found them all wanting, because I used combinations of categories and classes > heavily in Quicken, but nothing else understands such 2-dimensional tagging. > There were also problems with split transactions, which negates pretty much > all of my paychecks. > > In any case, this is the workaround I've used and will continue to use, at > least until I can find a copy of Quicken 2005, so that I can upgrade my > Quicken 2003 to Quicken 2005, so that the database is readable (maybe) by > Quicken 2007. A mess, but at least a manageable mess for now. > > Cheers, > > Bill > [1] The one problem I had was that repartitioning my drive on the fly caused > my hard drive to start acting like it was going bad. A visit to the genius > bar, and I was back home backing up both partitions on the hard drive, wiping > the drive completely, repartitioning, and restoring each partition. Now > things seem to be fine. > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
