Quicken for Mac 2018 v5.8.0 Released

JoeyMaggard

JoeyMaggard said:

 In the Home tab under Bill & Income Reminders, clicking on one of the reminders used to open a second window for the account with the transaction highlighted. This no longer works for Credit Card accounts. Only cash and savings accounts now.

And apparently no one cares, because this is not fixed in 5.8.1

jacobs

JoeyMaggard said:

 In the Home tab under Bill & Income Reminders, clicking on one of the reminders used to open a second window for the account with the transaction highlighted. This no longer works for Credit Card accounts. Only cash and savings accounts now.

Joey, just because a particular issue wasn’t addressed in the next available update doesn’t mean “no one cares.” The developers could have this as a lower-priority problem on their list, or the primary programmer who works on this section of the code could have been assigned a higher-priority issue for this release. We all would like our issues with Quicken to be at the top of the list, but the reality is that they have a limited number of programmers and a vast list of bugs and feature requests to work on.Did you report this issue using the Report a Problem feature in the Quicken Help menu? That’s a direct path for reporting bugs, whereas this forum isn’t and tends to be hit-or-miss whether a developer will see a post in one of these long threads.

bobsully

This is timely as I am going to switch to Quicken for Mac from the Windows version.  I have questions regarding how a subscription would transfer in this case.  Can anyone point me in the right direction for an answer, and sorry for going a tad off topic.

jacobs

With a subscription, you can download the Mac and the Windows version -- both are included in the price of your subscription. Be aware that the programs are different and not interoperable. You can import your Windows data file into Quicken Mac, but it's a one-way transfer. there are still a significant number of Windows features not present in the Mac product, although the gap continues to be narrowed, slowly, month by month. If you're not clear on the differences, this thread isn't the place for a detailed discussion; you can search the forum for numerous threads on the topic of switching from Windows to Mac, and if you have specific questions, it would be best to start a new post.

bobsully

Thank you.  I will take your advise.

Quicken Sarah

bobsully said:

This is timely as I am going to switch to Quicken for Mac from the Windows version.  I have questions regarding how a subscription would transfer in this case.  Can anyone point me in the right direction for an answer, and sorry for going a tad off topic.

Forking to standalone post, off-topic.


Please reference the new conversation here: Moving from Quicken for Mac to Quicken for Windows

Quicken Sarah

jacobs said:

With a subscription, you can download the Mac and the Windows version -- both are included in the price of your subscription. Be aware that the programs are different and not interoperable. You can import your Windows data file into Quicken Mac, but it's a one-way transfer. there are still a significant number of Windows features not present in the Mac product, although the gap continues to be narrowed, slowly, month by month. If you're not clear on the differences, this thread isn't the place for a detailed discussion; you can search the forum for numerous threads on the topic of switching from Windows to Mac, and if you have specific questions, it would be best to start a new post.

Moving to merge w/new post.


Please reference the new conversation here: Moving to merge

Quicken Sarah

bobsully said:

Thank you.  I will take your advise.

Moving to merge w/new post.


Please reference the new conversation here: Moving to merge

JoeyMaggard

JoeyMaggard said:

 In the Home tab under Bill & Income Reminders, clicking on one of the reminders used to open a second window for the account with the transaction highlighted. This no longer works for Credit Card accounts. Only cash and savings accounts now.

Excuse me for being disappointed when the update promised fixes "This release has a number of fixes." " I think many of you will recognize these as issues you brought to our attention in the last releases forum port." seemed to incdicate that someone WAS paying attention to these forums. After filtering out your condescension, I did find the suggestion for "report a problem" helpful, so I did. If that was higher up in the Help menu, I probably would have done that first, but I mistakenly came here for help. 

The other really annoying thing is almost every update to Quicken breaks some little something. You used to be able to navigate between accounts with the arrow keys, for example, and a few other little things like that and this issue. After a while, they add up to a real time cost and a sense of frustration. So I apologize for offending your sensibilities, but after awhile, one starts to feel that indeed "no one cares."

jacobs

JoeyMaggard said:

 In the Home tab under Bill & Income Reminders, clicking on one of the reminders used to open a second window for the account with the transaction highlighted. This no longer works for Credit Card accounts. Only cash and savings accounts now.

Joey, I wasn't offended, and I wasn't being condescending. In your previous post, you said that because one issue wasn't fixed, it meant "no one cares." I was only explaining that there are enough bugs and feature requests that they simply can never satisfy everyone with any one release. I understand you wanted them to fix your problem, but as Marcus stated, there indeed were a number of positive fixes in this latest release.

There's forward progress, but as you note, sometimes it's two-steps forward-one-step-back progress. And I don't believe that's because no one cares; I believe the engineers on the Mac team are genuinely trying to build a solid product, fix problems, and add useful features. And yes, they sometimes miss the mark -- likely due to some combination of the complexity of the software, flaws in internal testing design, inadequate beta testing, and unexpected.

(I'm not sure what you're referring to with the arrow keys; maybe start a new thread about it, or a post here just about that. There are definitely small things users have been able to successfully lobby the developers to change.)

CUITCNY

RickO said:

The ability to customize for "No Payee" prompted me to check for any transactions that don't have a payee, which in my data should not exist. This revealed a twofold problem:

1) Opening Balance Adjustment (placeholder) transactions with non-zero amounts show in the report with a blank payee even though they show in the registers with payee "Opening Balance Adjustment". They are gray (placeholder) transactions. I have three of these.

2) Opening Balance Adjustment transactions with amount = $0.00 show up in the report with an blank payee and "Opening Balance Adjustment" in the memo field. However, these transactions are not shown at all in the accounts' registers at all. I have four of these.

Going back to 5.7.x, I see the same issue. So it's not something new with 5.8, but does reveal an issue with missing transactions and incorrect register payee entries.

But report submitted in beta.

As Quicken for Mac continues to improve its functionality, it becomes a more useful tool, to the point users ask for even more functionality. It is inevitable; I am impressed how far Quicken for MAC has come in the last few years. Seems to me that the Quicken programmers truly understand the monster they have created. Please keep up the great work!