I keep an old G4 in the "server closet" to archive backups. When I couldn't run Quicken on my desktop anymore I moved the Quicken and its files onto that machine. Now I just screen share into it and run Quicken when I need to. There is such a profusion of REALLY cheap machines that will run Quicken. I'd recommend a "headless"[1] G4 or G5 PowerMac that you can hide away somewhere.
A smaller and more energy efficient option would be a G4 Mac Mini, but they are harder to find and IMHO frequently cost too much considering the fact that they are very slow, but that may still be worth it to you if you don't have the space. Obviously, ANY separate computer would be less energy efficient, but it is way more useful to not have to reboot your computer when you just wanted to enter a few receipts. j. [1] Monitorless On May 29, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> 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. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9/10/11 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Personal Blog o'Stuff: http://jfletch.posterous.com Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next up: 12 at 12, from the "Mothership!" Thursday, June 14, 12:00 pm to 3:30-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
