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GONE is the Title, Payment, Debit on the top line, with Category Memo, and Open Split on the lower line. GONE is the blue/white striped lines you’re used to. Nope, now you have to hit a "+" icon and fumble through a clunky entry interface. GONE is the empty field at the bottom of your various registers, waiting for you to fill in the next transaction. It’s been made much worse in this 2019 rendition of Quicken. Quicken is not an app to radically change the user interface, thinking changes will make it better. And we would use an open documented file structure that would provide performance and import/export capability.
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If I were not at an advanced age, I would be looking for and inviting other software developers and data architects to get involved and we would create a competing program with proper design details that would fix these problems. What with their oldest, most reliable long-term users aging and their retirement savings becoming far more valuable that cash accounts, it would make sense to fix this shortcoming so they retain long time users and create new ones. With my 42 years of IT experience, I'm sure I could do this, but less technically inclined folks are going to be lost. I know there are supposed to be ways you can 'hack' the investment transaction exports by editing the files that will supposedly allow this, but I shouldn't have to hack the vendor's own data to move it. After having spent months of researching this situation, I've found no good method of fixing my data other than printing transactions lists from old files and manually re-keying my historical data into my current file. They must have done something really, really stupid to create this problem and they should get it fixed. If they can 'build' the register, and I can manually create the data, why can't they export/import the same data to a different file? I can enter my investment transactions in that register. Quicken can visually present my investment transactions in a 'register' format. I have never used downloads from financial institutions, so that is not an issue. However, they will no longer support the movement of my investment transactions between their own files.
All of my 32 years of Quicken data files have faithfully been upgraded and will all work with QW2014, so are 'version compatible'. They blame this on their claim that investment accounts 'do not have a real transaction register'. Intuit has apparently made some very poor design decisions in their 'secret' file formats, resulting in the lack of ability to export/import investment transactions between files.
This involves nearly 100 thousand transactions housed in about 15 different accounts from over the years, including various employer's 401k plans. Now I would like to have my complete investment history in a single complete file. HOWEVER, I made the mistake of leaving behind some of my retirement savings and investment accounts. So the logical thing was to leave behind accounts I no longer used. With my decades of experience in handling data, I know this has to be a structural problem.
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This is because I have experienced performance problems as the file grew, to the point it would take ten seconds or more for the update of a row of data in the register of all accounts. Granted over the years I made a few mistakes with Quicken in the area of retaining data in my current file. But no, QUICKEN HAS TO MAKE IT AS EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE.
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This should be a simple thing: install the software that I bought a couple of years ago, copy the data file over and I'm good to go. You have lost a long-time, formerly loyal customer. Surprise Quicken! After 20 years, I am in the market for new software.
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To make the rest of the story short, my only option is to pay them for an upgrade! It will cost $45 that I do not have to upgrade to a new version on which will never, ever use the "new & improved" bells & whistles! I suppose they think they have a captive customer base. But it doesn't matter, she won't/can't help me anyway. She asks for my email address, when she repeats it back to me it isn't even slightly close to what I had said. I am connected with a woman I can barely understand because her accent is so thick. So OK, I'll call support even though I will have to pay long distance charges. Seems to me QUICKEN REALLY DOESN'T REALLY WANT ANYONE USING THEIR SUPPORT SITE! I click on the Support link and am brought to a new page.but I am no longer logged in! Of course, it won't let me post a question without being logged in! So, I log in again and the same thing happens.
After I log in, I am taken to what appears to be a home page. It too wanted me to log in, which I did with no problem, or so I thought. On the old computer, I went to the Quicken support site to try and get some help.
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