[philmcm]

I can't remember when Quicken for Mac started to become unreliable. 2003 was a particularly bad year for me with the stock split problem, the stock lot sales problems, and the bank and stock broker compatablility problems.
What is the most reliable version of Quicken that you remember? Would it still work with Classic 9 in OSX? I don't mind loosing features to gain stability and reliability.
Philip

[washaccount]

Philmcm, I feel bad for you and your stock split problem, stock lot sales problems, and bank and stock broker compatablility problems. I guess every user here has their own priorities and hence most useful/useless Quicken release.
For me, the most irritating problem was with reconciling accounts. Every year I would have to offload, reload, and renter cash transactions to stabilize the problem. Well, magically, and of course without any acknowledgment from Quicken that there ever was a problem, Quicken 2003 reconciliation worked. Crashes were somewhat reduced too.
Bottom line: Quicken 2003, updated to R4 has been the most reliable and satisfactory release. I wish I could return to it from Q2004 and the huge degradation in portfolio processing. But the data files are incompatible, and there is no way to offload/reload my numerous Scheduled Transactions.

[philmcm]

"I guess every user here has their own priorities and hence most useful/useless Quicken release."
Hi washaccount,
Good point. I didn't think about that when I asked the question. I was hoping everyone would agree on one year and that I could go back to that year.
Your finances sound more complicated than mine, but I kind of know what you mean about the reconciling. In 2000 or 2002 (or both), I had so much trouble with reconciled financial accounts, I quit reconciling them. I still reconcile bank and credit card accounts, but not financial accounts.
Thanks for the response,
Philip

[acp94070]

I have been using quicken forever on the mac. It was very reliable until they started naming the versions after years. Around that time it screwed up a lot of my split transactions and most accounts have been unreconcilable since. I have bought three upgrades in hopes that it would download transactions from Brown & Co, but all it does is crash more often and give me more bizarre answers on reports and graphs. I'm going to throw away 8 years of transactions and start over on windows. Yuch! What's so hard about using a common source pool to build both mac and pc versions????? It would be much cheaper in the long run, and they wouldn't have so many digruntled mac users swearing oaths in their direction.

[jtallenmd]

I have been a Quicken User since Quicken 4. For the first couple of years, I upgraded annually. One year I was a Beta tester (that was before the Army moved me to Europe). I think that the big change came the year that Intuit took a sabbatical from the Mac market. Even though it was only about a year, the quality just has not been as good since. I think they probably lost most (maybe even all) of their good Mac programmers with that decision and they have not recovered from it.