Quicken 2006 downloading going away

Posted by Oilcan on February 26, 2009, 10:07 pm

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I got this from Quicken Help (Q2009D)

Per 2009 Software License Agreement - some key points:

RESERVATION OF RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP. The Software is licensed not sold,
and Intuit reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this
Agreement. The Software is protected by copyright, trade secret and
other intellectual property laws. Intuit and its licensors own the
title, copyright, and other worldwide intellectual property rights in
the Software and all copies of the Software. This Agreement does not
grant you any rights to trademarks or service marks of Intuit.

FINANCIAL INSTITUTION SERVICES.
3.1 General. In connection with Licensee's use of the Software and as
part of the functionality of the Software, Licensee may have access to
certain online services that may be made available by Licensee's
financial institutions ("FI Services"), including online banking, online
payment, online investment account download, online bill pay, and online
trading. The Software is designed to allow Licensee to access FI
Services (if and to the extent provided by Licensee's financial
institutions) to set up banking information, schedule the Software to
access Licensee's account(s), download transactions into the Software
and otherwise aggregate information from Licensee's account(s) with
Licensee's financial institutions. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that
Intuit has no control over the provision of FI Services or provision of
access to the FI Services by Licensee's financial institutions, does not
guarantee that Licensee will be able to use the Software with the FI
Services, and will have no liability whatsoever for any actions or
inactions on the part of the financial institutions resulting in
Licensee's inability to use the Software to access Licensee's accounts,
obtain data, download transactions, or otherwise use or access the FI
Services.

From Help in General regarding the sunset policy:

In an ongoing effort to provide reliable high-quality products and
services, Intuit periodically retires (also known as "sunsets") older
versions of Quicken, thereby discontinuing online services and live
technical support for these versions. For more information, visit our
Web site.

Oilcan

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Gutman [mailto:nzgutman@sbcglobal.net]
Posted At: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:36 PM
Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Conversation: Quicken 2006 downloading going away
Subject: Re: Quicken 2006 downloading going away

R. C. White wrote:

> Hi, Nathan.

> When your 3-year subscription to a magazine expires, do you accuse the

> publisher of forcing you to re-subscribe? Or do you recognize that

you

> got what you paid for and, if you want to keep getting the magazine,

> you'll need to pay to renew your subscription?

> I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2009, but I still have the packaging for my

> copy of Quicken Basic 2006. Nowhere on the package do I see any claim

> that it will download stock quotes, even for one day. There is a

> promise to "Download bank and credit card information", but that has a

> footnote in very tiny print that says, "Online features require

Internet

> access and are subject to change."

> The 3-year "sunset" policy for Quicken quotes has been well-known for

> several years and has been discussed here many times. It SHOULD be

> disclosed on the Quicken package, but I don't see it.

> If I choose not to buy another Quicken package before the Spring of

> 2012, I will not be surprised - or feel cheated - if it stops

> downloading quotes at that time. I won't be "forced" to do anything.

> will be able to continue using Q2009 for the rest of my life, but

> without the convenience of downloading quotes. I will have received

> what Intuit had promised me (even if it was less than I had hoped

for).

> Having said all that, I agree that it would be nice to have available

> source to continue downloading quotes into Quicken. And free would be

> nice. ;<}

> RC

I respectfully disagree, buying a software product is not a subscription

to a magazine. It should continue to work as it worked the day that I
bought it. How would you buy a toaster that would stop working after
three years with a stipulation to buy another "improved" version. the
only reason Intuit is doing it is to squeeze out a few more dollars from

you.

--
Nathan Gutman

Posted by JimH on February 26, 2009, 6:57 pm

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Nathan Gutman wrote:

> I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit

> want to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the

> downloading of quotes.

> Has anyone come with a workaround?

> Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken 2006?

I agree with what RC said, but if you want to continue to use Quicken
2006, and import stock quotes, you can download NetStock from
splitcycle.com. That has function to download quotes to a text file that
Quicken can import. The import of quotes shows up in the file->import
menu when you are in the portfolio view.

SplitCycle would like a $5.00 donation to help pay for the cost of
maintaining the NetStock program, but it isn't required. A used copy of
Quicken Deluxe 2009 from Amazon.com is $29.99. EBay has it as low as
$19.99.

--
Jim

Posted by wbertram on February 26, 2009, 9:34 pm

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Nathan Gutman wrote:

> I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit

> want to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the

> downloading of quotes.

> Has anyone come with a workaround?

> Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken 2006?

You can download quotes from YAHOO finance. They download
to a file "quotes.csv". From the "prices" screen in
Quicken, quotes.com can be imported into Quicken.

I do that routinely.

Posted by Nathan Gutman on February 27, 2009, 11:52 am

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wbertram wrote:

> Nathan Gutman wrote:

>> I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit

>> want to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the

>> downloading of quotes.

>> Has anyone come with a workaround?

>> Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken

>> 2006?

> You can download quotes from YAHOO finance. They download to a file

> "quotes.csv". From the "prices" screen in Quicken, quotes.com can be

> imported into Quicken.

> I do that routinely.

Could you kindly explain how exactly are you doing it? How to do this to
get into this quotes.csv file a list of symbols?
Thanks

--
Nathan Gutman

Posted by wbertram on February 27, 2009, 4:51 pm

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Nathan Gutman wrote:

> wbertram wrote:

>> Nathan Gutman wrote:

>>> I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit

>>> want to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the

>>> downloading of quotes.

>>> Has anyone come with a workaround?

>>> Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken

>>> 2006?

>> You can download quotes from YAHOO finance. They download to a file

>> "quotes.csv". From the "prices" screen in Quicken, quotes.com can be

>> imported into Quicken.

>> I do that routinely.

> Could you kindly explain how exactly are you doing it? How to do this to

> get into this quotes.csv file a list of symbols?

> Thanks

Do as I did.

Go to the YAHOO finance web site and read the Help section.
Set up a portfolio containing the stocks/funds you want to
download quotes on. Read how to download the quotes to a
file. The file will contain one line for each item you
enter. The line will contain Symbol, last price, and date,
among other information.

Go to Quicken Help and read how to import prices from a .csv
file into Quicken. Then follow the instructions.

It works! Prices and Date of Price will be imported into
Quicken for each stock/fund which are both listed in the
.csv file and for which you have a position in Quicken.