When will Emergency Records Organizer be available Mac OS Catalina?

Jerry Hornor

I've just installed Mac OS 10.15 and I find I can only update my Emergency Records Organizer on the windows version.

jacobs

There's no way anyone here can answer when any particular feature will be added to Quicken Mac. The developers rarely comment on future features, and never give a time, because the development schedule is ever-changing.

This feature used to exist on the legacy Mac version as well as the Windows version. But whether it will be rebuilt for the modern Mac product is anyone's guess. My guess is that it won't happen. On Windows, this is a stand-alone program that seems increasingly unsupported as Windows is updated, from issues I've read on these forums. 

It's possible the developers will work to re-create something like the Emergency Records Organizer (and/or Home Inventory Manager_ for the modern Quicken a bit farther down the road, when more core pieces of the program are up to par with Quicken Windows -- but I wouldn't count on it. The issue is that there's lots of other free or inexpensive software that everyone has and can use to document their records. People can walk around their homes with their cellphone and create an audio/video documentation of their belongings, or create a list in a spreadsheet. Many people have many of their emergency records in their cellphone or computer contact databases or a Google doc in the cloud. And there are other software products available for doing the types of things these Quicken add-ons did. So my guess is that Quicken isn't going to commit the resources to re-create this software and will focus instead on the core purpose of personal finance management.

That all said, if you wanted to store some records inside Quicken, you could do something like this: 

1. create an Asset accounts called Emergency Records
2. create a transaction for a record such as Property Deed, for $0
3. click the attachment tab and click add attachment 
4. attach the document to the zero dollar transaction
5. repeat steps 2-4 for as many records as you want to store

So that's a way to store inside your Quicken data file emergency records. But I wouldn't advise doing this. Why depend on access to Quicken and your Quicken data file to access records, especially in a possible emergency where you may be away from your home or your regular computer? You'd be better off creating a folder of the same documents, password protecting them and storing them on Google or iCloud or somewhere you could access them from any computer anywhere. Just my 2¢…

jacobs

There's no way anyone here can answer when any particular feature will be added to Quicken Mac. The developers rarely comment on future features, and never give a time, because the development schedule is ever-changing.

This feature used to exist on the legacy Mac version as well as the Windows version. But whether it will be rebuilt for the modern Mac product is anyone's guess. My guess is that it won't happen. On Windows, this is a stand-alone program that seems increasingly unsupported as Windows is updated, from issues I've read on these forums. 

It's possible the developers will work to re-create something like the Emergency Records Organizer (and/or Home Inventory Manager_ for the modern Quicken a bit farther down the road, when more core pieces of the program are up to par with Quicken Windows -- but I wouldn't count on it. The issue is that there's lots of other free or inexpensive software that everyone has and can use to document their records. People can walk around their homes with their cellphone and create an audio/video documentation of their belongings, or create a list in a spreadsheet. Many people have many of their emergency records in their cellphone or computer contact databases or a Google doc in the cloud. And there are other software products available for doing the types of things these Quicken add-ons did. So my guess is that Quicken isn't going to commit the resources to re-create this software and will focus instead on the core purpose of personal finance management.

That all said, if you wanted to store some records inside Quicken, you could do something like this: 

1. create an Asset accounts called Emergency Records
2. create a transaction for a record such as Property Deed, for $0
3. click the attachment tab and click add attachment 
4. attach the document to the zero dollar transaction
5. repeat steps 2-4 for as many records as you want to store

So that's a way to store inside your Quicken data file emergency records. But I wouldn't advise doing this. Why depend on access to Quicken and your Quicken data file to access records, especially in a possible emergency where you may be away from your home or your regular computer? You'd be better off creating a folder of the same documents, password protecting them and storing them on Google or iCloud or somewhere you could access them from any computer anywhere. Just my 2¢…