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Posted by John Pollard on February 16, 2007, 10:15 am
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Stewart Berman wrote:
>> It's not clear from this sentence why you believe you
>> will not be able to download qif files from your bank
>> anymore.
>
> Because the statement from Quicken is:
> "As of April 30, 2007, Online Services and live technical
> support for Quicken 2004 will no longer be available.
> These services include downloading financial data from
> your bank..."
Quicken plays absolutely no role in the "downloading" of qif
files; anyone in the world can download qif files without ever
having owned a single version of Quicken or any other financial
software. Quicken's role in qif files is to "import" them. And
Quicken has never required an internet connection to import qif
files. Your older version of Quicken can not eliminate your
ability to download qif files.
If a user needed only qif files for updating their Quicken data
(and did not use Quicken's quote downloads), that user would
never need to upgrade. Q2004 will import qif files forever. (I
can't say whether financial institutions will make qif files
available for downloading forever ... but that's really a
different story.)
> Of course Intuit intended to say that Quicken interactive
> downloads would no longer be allowed but somehow
> neglected to say that.
They didn't need to say that. As I said, Quicken plays no part
in the downloading of qif files, and there is no internet
connection with Intuit servers require to import qif files.
There is no way for Intuit to prevent you from downloading and
importing qif files in versions which never had any qif file
import restrictions.
> It also did not say that you
> could still use QIF file imports after the interactive
> downloads were cutoff. Probably because Intuit wanted to
> reduce the size of the web page that was displayed to
> improve response.
>
>
>> louise wrote:
>>> I've been running Quicken Deluxe 2004 and will soon have
>>> to upgrade because I'll no longer be able to download
>>> qif files from my bank.
>>
>> It's not clear from this sentence why you believe you
>> will not be able to download qif files from your bank
>> anymore.
>>
>> If your bank intends to stop making qif files available,
>> there is nothing you can do about that.
>>
>> But if you are talking about Intuit's "sunset" policy,
>> that does not affect your ability to download or import
>> qif files. You will be able to *download* qif files as
>> long as your financial institution(s) make them
>> available - no matter what version of Quicken you use.
>> And you will be able to *import* qif files into Q2004
>> forever.
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John Pollard
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