Posted on 02/11/2005 3:54:04 PM PST by muskybankr
have no idea what this means
What kind of Mac,What OS?
What version of Quicken are you converting from? The conversion instructions on the Quicken site only goes back to Quicken 98.
And Bush uses a PowerBook. Limbaugh uses a PowerMac G5.
Let's leave the politics out of our technology, alright?
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!! Tolerance please..It's a happy, (albeit somewhat expensive), addiction OK?! Most of us were affected before the awful, humiliating Gore/Kerry abomination. Until then we just gritted our teeth and tried to ignore Jobs....
I guess in a pinch you could use virtualPC and run the windows version of Quicken.
What happens when you drag the (windows) quicken file onto the (mac) quicken icon?
Conservatives should make rational decisions as consumers, based on the quality and value of the product.
Ping for Mac user asking for help with converting PC Quicken files into Mac Quicken files...
As always if you want to be on or off the Mac Ping list, Freepmail me.
Jobs is one hell of a capitalist. That's good enough for me.
Dubya's got an iPod, too. There's a photo of him wearing one while cycling, posted on a recent thread.
IIRC, Bush was using Apples during or near the end of his Texas governorship. I think there's a photo dated 1998 floating around of him with an Apple in the background.
Anyway, why would Bush use computers whose W keys had been removed? ;)
The authors of computerized bookkeeping systems have a severe problem. Their problem is they want to stay in business but cannot do so selling accounting programs. Most businesses will not buy a new version of what they are using, much less change to another unless dragged kicking and screaming.
Accounting principles changes with the speed of a drifting continent! In essence, accounting has not changed much in 200 years.
New versions of Quickbooks and Quicken! sold only because Intuit included them in EOM packages and people paid to license them after a trial period. Intuit and others tried offering new bells and whistles... didn't work. Most businesses opined that it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Intuit realized that ONE THING THAT CHANGED in accounting... tax rates and rules. They then invented the TAX TABLE SERVICE.
Before this miraculous realization and invention, users of their packages merely needed to insert a few percentages (one for each bracket and filing statuses) and enter rates and cut-off amounts for the various payroll taxes, do the same for the states where they had employees and off they went... worked great. Then Intuit discovered they could LOCK OUT THE USERS from modifying the tax tables, encrypt the tables, and FORCE users to subscribe to a costly TAX TABLE SERVICE that did for them what they once did for themselves! $$$$$$$ and more $$$$$! Hallelujah!
Now, assured of a consistent cash flow from charging a yearly subscription fee for the tax tables, the company was saved. But it didn't answer the nagging question of selling more accounting packages. After all, if accounting never really changed, what incentive was there for Joe Businessman to buy another version?
Bells and whistles hadn't done it, althought they were "REALLY NEAT" and could generate all kinds of reports that no one needed or every looked at. How do they FORCE the users to upgrade for a nice new set of $$$$$ coming into the company's coffers?
Again, Intuit turned to the miraculous TAX TABLE SERVICE.
It suddenly dawned on some wonk in Intuit that the problem of forcing users to upgrade to the newest, latest and greatest accounting package (with all the bells and whistles and really neat useless reports) was to simply CHANGE THE ENCRYPTION OF THE TAX TABLES... and make the new encryption incompatible with the new version. After a couple of years STOP PROVIDING tax tables with the old encryption! BINGO! Everyone has to upgrade or not be able to legally pay their employees!
WHOW! More oodles of dollars selling something that no one really needs except for the manipulation of the tax table encryption. Businesses grinned and bore it because they HAD to pay their employees and the HAD to withhold the proper amounts or the government would FINE THEM!
NOT satisfied with extracting money from businesses that really would not be necessary save for the tricky nature of forcing upgrades, Intuit trolled around for another way to increase revenue. There really is nothing more they could do to change things... but what if they could convince businesses they needed a service that most businesses do themselves: pay their employees?
Accounting software publishers suddenly decieded they had to move into business services... handling the paychecks, payroll reports, and government filing necessary for that service... for a per-employee fee. "How do we convince them they need US?" someone at each publisher must have asked? The answer was simple... make what was once a fairly simple process harder and harder. Omit some clearly payroll tax items such as California's Employment Training Tax (an advalorum tax of .1% of each employee's pay up to $7000) and force the user to add it himself in an obtuse manner... and don't tell them. Make changes with every new release in how the payroll process is done each payday to confound and irritate the payroll department. And finally, make it more difficult to file the proper forms with the Government...
It's virtually impossible without doing an astronomical amount of work going back and fixing all the entries. BTW, Quicken for Mac, which I use for my personal finances, is not as good a program as Quicken for the PC, which I also use (at the office). However, Quicken for Mac works perfectly fine, it's just not as good.
If it makes you feel any better, converting Quicken for Mac to the PC is also a senseless waste of time.
My advice is to start from scratch for the year 2004 on the Mac.
Make a printout of your Quicken register data from a PC, print your checkbook register, run some reports, and start fresh. If you have a portfolio with stocks, I'm not sure how you can go about that. That one you may just have to re-do all the information for all those years.
In any event, after 13 years, it's probably time to start a new data file. When they get too big, they start getting glitchy. I've noticed some goofy stuff happening to my portfolio file, which is very very old.
Quicken has a new Mac version out which they're trying to get everybody to buy, but after looking it over, I can't see any reason at all why I should upgrade. There's nothing new in it that I need or want.
Please ping me if you come up with any solutions.
FWIW, print the relevant annual reports and start fresh. Think "calculator," not "file cabinet."
And bill gates give tons of cash to planned parenthood and the UN population control fund, lets try to leave politics out of this..
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