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Posted by Justan Oldfart on November 17, 2007, 10:38 am
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On 2007-11-17 08:49:15 -0600, xxx.yyy@zzz said:
> I have used Quicken for 15 years and have a lot of data built up. This
> is our most important application. We are considering switching to a
> Mac from PC. Any advice on the state of Quicken for Mac today and how
> hard or difficult the conversion would be for a large file with lot of
> historical data?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
The Windoze and Mac versions are really not compatible at this time. It
is difficult at best to try and convert the Windoze data file to the
Mac version. There is information about doing this in Intuit's
knowledge base. I don't think that the procedure is worth the effort.
Most Mac folks with the new Intel boxes run the Windoze version under
virtualization software such as Vmware Fusion or Parallels. I use
Fusion on My two Intel Macs and Quicken runs perfectly. Another
alternative is to use "Bootcamp" which installs Windoze on a seperate
partition on your Mac but this requires a reboot anytime you want to
run Windoze. Still another alternative is to use the Bootcamp
partition as a virtual machine under Fusion or Parallels. The advantage
to virtual machines is you don't have to reboot to run Windoze and they
run at near native speed. Make the switch to Mac and you'll never look
back.
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