This is a good idea Jonathan, real good idea. John
On May 29, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
