Quicken Deluxe 2018 Mac will not convert Quicken Essentials file

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Recently upgraded Mac OS 10.10.5 to 10.13.3 (High Sierra). Quicken Essentials will not run. Fine.

Installed Quicken Deluxe 2018 from disk purchased at Office Depot, downloaded/installed update to 5.5.0.

Click "Start from Quicken Essentials File" in startup. Click "Don't use Mobile" because I don't wish to. Brings up the popup of "Backing up data file" - creates a .quicken file about 2x the size of the original .quickendata file. Makes it through "setting up", and moves on to "updating database". After 10-15 seconds on that step, Quicken crashes and closes all windows.

I called Quicken support. Spoke with Jessica. Uninstalled and reinstalled Quicken, re-updated Quicken. Repeated all steps with her on the phone. Same result. She spoke more with technical support - they determined that the .quickendata file must have been corrupted in the OS update, so I would have to start from scratch as the only option. Ended call with Jessica in support.

Went into my Time Machine backups, and pulled up the .quickendata file from 2 days before my OS update. This was a file saved two days previous to the one I'd been working with, and thus should be un-corrupted; Quicken Essentials was able to access, work with it and save it (before OS update).

Going through the same steps with the older version of the file results in the same crash. It's not a problem of corruption of the .quickendata file.

I'm beyond frustrated.

Help please.

Editing to add relevant information from the crash log file:
Exception Type:  SIGABRT


Exception Codes: #0 at 0x7fff62b34e3e
***Terminating app due to uncaught exception
'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[<NSManagedObject 0x600001496b70>
valueForUndefinedKey:]: the entity OtherSecurity is not key value
coding-compliant for the key "openingPrice".'

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I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

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Kay said:

I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

It worked!! I was able to bypass the update. It imported all of my Quicken Essentials, and seems to be all in order! The only question now is whether I should do the update of the software now. Do you think it will re-break things with that one hanging exception?

jacobs

Kay said:

I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

Kay, I wouldn't think so. But make a backup copy of your 2018 data file, Compress it just to make sure you don't accidentally open it, and then open Quicken with your live file and update Quicken. If it sails through, which I'd expect, you're clear to move forward; if it crashes, you can go back to the backup file and NOT update Quicken for the time being, and we can try to flag one f the moderators to try to get this in front of the development team.

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Kay said:

I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

That's what led me to post that section of the crash log, RickO. I was going through it after the 15th time it generated one, and said aloud "But I don't even have those!"

Thank you so much for knowing the update changes, so we could get around the error.

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Kay said:

I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

And, we have successful update to 5.5.0!

Quicken Marcus

Kay said:

I installed QM18 from disk, and then, yes, had to download and run the update to 5.5. I will do exactly what you suggest, and see if that works.

Sorry.  This was a bug we introduced into 5.5.  We have a fix and will get that out to the Care team today 2/6.  We're just doing some final testing on it now.