How I Learned To Love Quicken Deluxe and Give Up on the Past

My reason is more historical: In 2011, my iMac PowerPC G5 died and rather than try to fix it, I thought it was time to upgrade to an Intel Mac.

I purchased the 2011 Mac Mini without doing much research, and was shocked to discover that OS X Lion no longer contained the transparent Rosetta translation program that allowed PowerPC programs to run on Intel Macs.

At that time Quicken 2007 was, as up until now, very important to me, so initially I ran Quicken 2007 in Snow Leopard in Parallels, until from my research of an Apple user named newfoundglory, discovered how to partition my 2011 Mac Mini and get one partition to boot and run Snow Leopard.

The other partition ran Lion and then Mt. Lion and ultimately I added a 3rd partition for upgrades until it runs High Sierra.

Then in 2012, Intuit made my life easier by releasing a version of Quicken 2007 that ran in Lion and updated it until it now runs in my High Sierra partition.

But for ease of backup purposes, I kept all of my data files in the Mt. Lion partition including my “Accounting” folder that contains data files going all the way back to running Home Accountant on my Apple ][+ and then //c in the early to mid 1980s.

Home Accountant migrated to Time is Money and then MacMoney and finally in the mid-1990s to Quicken, starting with version 4, 6, 98, 2000, 2002 Pro and finally 2007.

When I briefly had a business corporation in 2000-2004, I also used Quickbooks.

All of my other accounting data files are in this folder and I will move my Quicken 2022 data file there, too.

When it is released later this year, I will bite the bullet and buy the then latest Mac Mini with Apple Silicon CPU and now I will be able to run Quicken on that Mac, too!