Is Quicken for Mac 2007 (QM2007) Compatible with High Sierra (macOS 10.13)?

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Poobah17 said:

Manual backup via File->Backup to Disk successful

I have the current iMac with a flash 1TB APFS formatted internal drive and an external HDD where I keep my time machine and video files ( as well as my Quicken file). I am running Mojave 10.14 . EVERYTHING WORKS! The next system upgrade will surely kill QM2007 because it will only run 64bit programs (QM2007 is 32bit and Mojave gives me a warning ever so often to update the program)

smayer97

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HFG said:

SALE on QUICKEN 2018! Tried to sign on 2 days ago and now getting unable to open file. Finally managed to open a 6 month old file. I gave up on 2007 and purchased the 2018. I really just use for the registers. FYI, Quicken.com has a sale, I think through July 6th. Deluxe was $49.99; now $29.99. Premier was $74.99; now $44.99. I was able to transfer my data up to the lost 6 months and down load online individual accounts for the last 3 months and reconstruct the other 2-3 months manually. Decided that even with the excellent help offered here, I am not technically literate enough to apply the suggestions. The Deluxe suits my needs. Just wanted to share the sale info for others in my same boat. Again, thanks for all those who tried to help me.

For people with a lot of time on their hands, I found a workaround.  I did not want to wipe the hard drive and go back to Sierra on my Macbook Pro.  I formatted a blank external SSD in HFS.  Used the current version of Carbon Copy Cloner (it has worked for me for over a decade) to clone the internal SSD to the external SSD.  The external SSD stays in HFS format.  Booted from the external SSD, partitioned and formated the internal SSD in HFS, then cloned the external drive to the internal SSD.  The internal SSD is now running High Sierra in HFS format.  Quicken 2007 works normally and autosaves.  Quicken 2017 works normally but I don't like it and rarely use it.

A lot of time I know but I am mostly retired and have been using Macs since the 80s.  I don't like the sneaky change to APFS.

jacobs

HFG said:

SALE on QUICKEN 2018! Tried to sign on 2 days ago and now getting unable to open file. Finally managed to open a 6 month old file. I gave up on 2007 and purchased the 2018. I really just use for the registers. FYI, Quicken.com has a sale, I think through July 6th. Deluxe was $49.99; now $29.99. Premier was $74.99; now $44.99. I was able to transfer my data up to the lost 6 months and down load online individual accounts for the last 3 months and reconstruct the other 2-3 months manually. Decided that even with the excellent help offered here, I am not technically literate enough to apply the suggestions. The Deluxe suits my needs. Just wanted to share the sale info for others in my same boat. Again, thanks for all those who tried to help me.

Well... to Apple's credit, they did explain the change to APFS was coming. And it is designed to improve performance and longevity of SSD drives, so it's not like they're doing something nefarious. Considering that APFS has been in use on close to a billion iOS devices since early 2017 and on millions of Macs for the past year, and that there have been very few reports of problems, it sure seems like a very successful transition on Apple's part. The minor issue with Quicken 2007's automatic backup feature would have been quickly fixed by Quicken if it were still a supported product; I don't think I can fault Apple for this step forward.

I'm glad your approach worked; it's sound and, as you say, just time-consuming. One approach that might have been simpler than the process you used is to use Disk Utility to partition your internal drive into two partitions, and to format the second small partition as an HFS+ volume on which you could place your Quicken data file and its backups.