Intuit Loses a Customer

Down with Quicken!

One of the joys of getting a new computer with a different OS is migrating all ones data over.

Fortunately, some bright spark out there has created a product called Move2Mac that lets you do just that! I moved everything painlessly to my Mac with this software and special USB cable.

However, one thing that doesn't transfer over nicely is Quicken data files; in no small part, this is because the Mac version is not as feature rich as the PC version.

Nevertheless, despite my best efforts, I have been unable to transfer any of my financial data from my Windows edition of Quicken to the Mac version. The file is there, Quicken for Mac can read it, but it inevitably comes up with complete spaghetti for values.

The online help at Intuit is not helpful, and I'll be damned if I'm paying $14.95 to talk to their tech support people.

So I've given it some thought... I don't really need to keep track of all my expenditures, since I never really do anything with the information anyways. For those household expenses that my wife and I share in, it's easily kept track of in an Excel spreadsheet (or even a pencil and paper list stuck to the fridge).

My bank keeps track of all my accounts and has statements available going back a year in electronic format online. Ditto my investments. I can even do pretty charts and graphs. My bills are almost all automated. There are no debts to keep track of since I pay the credit cards in full every month.

So why bother?

I hereby say PHOOEY ON QUICKEN!

:-)

We now return to our usual programming.