How can I find someone local (Atlanta GA) to export Quicken for Mac?

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Hi,

I inherited several Quicken for Mac files on a USB stick. I am a Windows PC / MS Excel person; the Mac is gone, I've never had Quicken, and I don't want to buy and learn the PC version all just to export three files.

All I need is for someone with Quicken for Mac to export it to CSV or Excel and I'll be good to go. I see how to do it here. Should take all of 5 minutes.

I am in the Atlanta GA area.

The files are from 2015 to 2017, but I don't know what version(s) they had.

Ideas, anyone? 

Thanks if you can help!

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jacobs

Martin, should you not find a way around the limitations of this forum, you could do this instead: find a friend who has a Mac, purchase a one-year subscription to Quicken 2019, install it, open each older file and export what you need -- and within 30 days of purchase, you can get a full refund from Quicken. It might take you less time than all the messaging here and sending files back and forth with someone. Just a thought.

jacobs

jacobs said:

Martin, should you not find a way around the limitations of this forum, you could do this instead: find a friend who has a Mac, purchase a one-year subscription to Quicken 2019, install it, open each older file and export what you need -- and within 30 days of purchase, you can get a full refund from Quicken. It might take you less time than all the messaging here and sending files back and forth with someone. Just a thought.

SimonSezSo

jacobs said:

Martin, should you not find a way around the limitations of this forum, you could do this instead: find a friend who has a Mac, purchase a one-year subscription to Quicken 2019, install it, open each older file and export what you need -- and within 30 days of purchase, you can get a full refund from Quicken. It might take you less time than all the messaging here and sending files back and forth with someone. Just a thought.

I understand what Jacobs is saying.  What this person is trying to do, and the way he's going about it, seems a little  suspect.  

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jacobs said:

Martin, should you not find a way around the limitations of this forum, you could do this instead: find a friend who has a Mac, purchase a one-year subscription to Quicken 2019, install it, open each older file and export what you need -- and within 30 days of purchase, you can get a full refund from Quicken. It might take you less time than all the messaging here and sending files back and forth with someone. Just a thought.

Thanks Simon ... what can I say. My request was to find someone local. They would see the real me (since it would probably involve me going to their house in person). And would see the files. The situation is easy to lay out. I wouldn't want to reveal family stuff here, though.

Past that, the fact remains that it's a real chore to get QfM files to a PC, if you're a Windows person that doesn't have a Mac, Quicken for Mac, or even Quicken for Windows. You only have the QfM files, period.

I gather from the responses that what I concluded is true - it is a bear to convert QfM files if you don't have QfM. So I looked for people with QfM locally who could help. Where better to ask than on the QfM forum?

SimonSezSo

jacobs said:

Martin, should you not find a way around the limitations of this forum, you could do this instead: find a friend who has a Mac, purchase a one-year subscription to Quicken 2019, install it, open each older file and export what you need -- and within 30 days of purchase, you can get a full refund from Quicken. It might take you less time than all the messaging here and sending files back and forth with someone. Just a thought.

Martin, no matter what story you give, no one here on this forum would really know if it was legit or not.  I would never give anyone access to financial data, unless they could prove they have a right to see it.  We cannot do that here.  It is my opinion that you are very lucky that you found someone on this forum that would help you extract files that you may or may not have a right to see.  There are ways to go about these things legally.  So no matter what story you give, no one should have given you access to those files without the legal right to do so and proof of your identity and rights to that information.