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Posted by Ira on August 19, 2007, 6:11 pm
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Thanks for your response.
That version of quicken, bought as soon as it was released without
waiting for the service updates, contained a bug which corrupted the
data file.
Admittedly, while it is rare, it is the reality. Quicken comes out
buggy. There were bugs I had reported which were never fixed. They
can only do so much, but my financial data is very important to me,
and it is not something I would be willing to trust to something with
such a poor track record on release.
The bugs in quicken are not just "the mouse shakes" or "it flashes" or
"it wont download from Fidelity Investments, on tuesdays which were
odd days of the month". There are real serious bugs, such as
calculation bugs, as well.
People are free to do as they wish. However, Quicken releasing
seriously buggy product each year is long since documented (go to
google news archive and search this forum... you will get an idea of
what problems there were in 2006, 2005, 2004, etc., as well seeing
over and over and over and over ,please advising to wait for the
service release) ... its not really up for debate. When you couple
this with the fact that the highest price for quicken can be had only
on the release, its a double whammy.
I do with you the best of luck.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:31:12 -0600, "Bob Wang"
>Ira:
>
>I wouldn't consider myself foolish, but I am one of those who like to play
>with the newest and buggiest.
>
>I don't understand your complaint about lost data, though.
>
>One can always go back to the previous version and the data at the date of
>conversion.
>
>Bob
>
>I see there is a lively debate on how fast one can get Quicken 2008,
>and how to be on the bleeding edge of the release.
>
>I would like to say, however, that I have lost data due to following
>that path in the past (and have been a Quicken beta tester, although
>not that year). I believe it was Quicken 2004 which had a
>tremendously serious bug, and corrupted the data files of many many
>people who had not waited for Release 2.
>
>You will never stop people who have to have the Rad Gnu L8TeZtt
>version of something as it comes out, although I am somewhat surprised
>you want to trust your financial data to something that has proven,
>time and time again, to be a problem on release.
>
>Seasoned vets of Quicken **KNOW** you have to wait at least for
>Release 2 before entrusting your data to Quicken. Let those who have
>not yet learned that fairly harsh lesson rush out and grab the
>software (at the higher release price). Once they experience this,
>they will stop ... but let them do what they must. Telling them they
>are foolish will only aggravate them.
>
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