[Up_The_Octave]

I am totally reliant on M$ Money on my PC but have managed to switch everything else to my new powerbook.

I have tried Quicken and have never seen a more complicated and unusable piece of software. M$ Money makes online banking easy, it just downloads the statements, no fuss. Quicken doesn't even support online statement downloading for the majority of the financial institutions.

So, help, what can I do? There is no way a 12 account Money file will go into Quicken and still work, let alone work with online banking.

Anyone using M$ Money through a windows emulator on their Macs? Would it be fast enough?

Thanks in advance,

Up The Octave

P.S - This one is really frustrating me, everything else has been easy to switch.

[Nobody]

Quicken is a piece of crap compared to MS Money. Very buggy in OS X. Although this may be minor to some, one of my biggest complaints is the fact that you can't hide reconciled transactions like you can in Money. Instead of having a register that has perhaps 50-100 entries in view, I have registers with several thousand. This makes viewing your outstanding transactions very difficult. The thing that has me most peeved currently, is the fact that Quicken 2003's scheduled update seems to sieze up and not execute. I don't have any suggestions about an alternative because it seems it's Quicken or the old fashioned way.

[Nobody]

R3 release for 2003 (free) claims to fix schedule stability issues. Haven't tried it yet.

[Nobody]

I have the R3 version, and I still don't see scheduled update working correctly.

[verklempt]

I recently downloaded a shareware program that was recommended on these boards some time ago, and I think it is going to be my replacement for MS Money, which I used until I switched to the Mac platform. The program is Moneydance and can be found here:

Moneydance

I think it's going to work just fine for me, and (something I didn't know until setting it up this weekend), Moneydance does have the ability to sync with Palm programs like Splashmoney.

Maybe it will work for you.

[Goontoe]

I agree with Spedwards. I am a "switcher" that came from the PC world and I loved MS Money. The Mac version of Quicken can't hold a candle to MS Money.

I am using Quicken 2002 R3 and still have problems nearly every day with scheduling, strange and cryptic messages after downloading statements, and of course the daily "program has quit due to an unexpected error" problem.

I looked at MoneyDance and I don't see that as being a good solution for me since I download account information and pay bills from my local bank. I'm just praying for the day that I wake up to hear that Microsoft has decided to port Money over to the Mac - which unfortunately will be a day we will likely never see.

[Nobody]

Hi,
I'm using Money 2001 with VPC 5 on my iMac 600. It runs great! No problems what so ever. I think it is fast enough for me in Win 98SE (VPC 5 simulates Pentium Pro). I was having too many headaches with Quicken 2001 and the fact that it is not as good as MS Money (I hate to say). One feature I always liked with Money is in the upcoming bills you can highlight multiple payees and see what your checking balance will be before you actually enter them. This is something Quicken can't do. You can also go online within Money to do your banking. Hope this helps.