Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind. I can always sneaker-net the fob between computers.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I wish mine worked. They don't make the data backward compatible. When you get a new version, it updates the data, and you can't use it with the old programs.

$52 is just a little over $0.14 a day, but it's still $52 that I never had to pay before. If I can't use Quicken as is, I'll get a different program. That's what you call pricing yourself out of the market. Adobe did the same thing, and others have followed suit.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

No more photography. The site is going to be renamed "Money R Us," and only financial matters will be discussed here.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Yup...
I have some data going back to 1996. A few have been "updated" because I used them.

There are some other programs out there that will track this stuff.
At least there used to be.

Jon_Armitage Loc: Holmfirth, West Yorkshire

Try GNUcash. It's open source, and says it will import Quicken files, although I have never tried.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Probably not, I couldn't!!!

bobforman Loc: Anacortes, Washington State

When Q stopped updating 2014 I opted for the subscription service at $52 per year. I was, and am, offended at this money grab but, otherwise, I would have lost my daily updates. I use Q for many purposes but stock prices are very important and you need the subscription for the up dates. I researched many different services other than Q and even joined them downloading my data to them. The mergers didn't go well and I'm doing something wrong but without time to diagnose this I be sticking with Q one more year. The others are free (with some strings) of will look to a donation, but there are some programs equal in services to Q, you'll just have to scratch and sniff to see what one you want.

HamB

I've been using Quicken since it came on floppy discs.
It is a valuable tool for managing personal finance.

The change to a subscription model really pi**ed me off.

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

I had Quicken to do my checking for years. Then they got greedy and wanted me to rent it. I wouldn't have minded to pay for an update every so often. So I dumped them and now use CheckBook Pro.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rdemarco52 Loc: Wantagh, NY

I use 2014. I do not use the on line features. It meets my needs perfectly.

JADAV

Quicken was withdrawn from the UK market around 2005 leaving our household with the 2002 version. I had doubts whether it would install on my latest laptop last week but it seems fine so far. I had to copy all the files from the installation disks I'd kept to a memorystick (CD/DVD drives appear to have joined floppy disks in the global landfill site). Autorun didn't work, as expected, but after finding the startup.exe file it ran fine. I was prompted to register the installation but there is no online facility to do so in the UK and I declined. It may raise itself again down the road I suppose but I don't see any restriction on use. We have tried alternative money management applications but none of them work as well as Quicken does for us. I very strongly dislike the adoption of subscription fees for software and agree with you Jerry that it makes you prone to whatever price hikes that a company wants to apply. They frequently quote their costs as "only $/£x.xx a day" which is only correct if you use the application everyday; the important cost is per use. If you use it once a month the cost is the annual subscription divided by 12 not 365 and that doesn't appear attractive to me! A recent post on this site pointed out how these subscriptions mount up and can make computers a costly item on the household budet.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

"...costs as "only $/£x.xx a day"..."

Add up everything you "rent" that only costs x.xx per day and see what you are spending a month or year.

"only x.xx per day" is a sales gimmick, for people looking to spend only pennies.
I have one phone app that is $5.99 per YEAR.
It costs me about a dollar per use (MAYBE six times a year), but it's only 1.64 cents a day.....

dpfoto Loc: Cape Coral, FL

I stopped using Quicken YEARS ago. I can do online banking directly with my bank. I do use Quickbooks for my business invoicing.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Quicken periodically give me a deadline to buy the upgrade, or I will no longer be able to down load from my bank. Wish that there was an alternative to it, I don't do budgets or stocks etc. just want to keep a record and have easy lookup of my transactions. Is there any good alternative to Quicken?