Advice for transitioning PC to Mac

Kaleym

I’ve used Quicken for many years on PC. Looking for advice about transitioning to new MacBook Pro. Planning to buy Mac software. Which is recommended for experienced user who doesn’t need to download transactions but I want to use Quicken iPhone app? Thanks in advance.

Quicken Francisco

Hello @Kaleym

Thank you for reaching out on the community and telling us about your issue. To address your original question about the online app yes you'll still be able to use the mobile sync with your accounts. 

First thing would be to find a working file here. Do you have a flash drive or potentially a cloud backup that you've previously used? If you do that'd be a place to start with so we can try accessing the file. The other thing is that if you have a local IT shop or computer services chain store (Best buy, Staples, Office Depot, Etc) all should have services that should be able to help with recovering hard drive data.  Recovering it will allow us to ideally get a file we're able to work with.

Once you get a file that was previously on your PC the article here should help guide you through converting the PC file to a Mac file. If you do run into issues past this I would recommend contacting quicken support to see what the best actions are to convert the file.

Thanks,

Quicken Francisco

 

 

NotACPA

Have you compared the various features between QWin and QMac, to see if QMac will meet your needs?

While significant advances have been made in QMac recently, it still doesn't have all of the capability of QWin.

Kaleym

Thanks. I assumed they were the same. I’ll investigate.

Kaleym

I’m sure the Mac version will be fine as long as it communicates with the online app. I’m more concerned about getting my data file from the PC version onto the new Mac. My PC died & I’m hoping to be able to get the file off my hard drive. Again, any advice appreciated. Thanks

Quicken Francisco

Hello @Kaleym

Thank you for reaching out on the community and telling us about your issue. To address your original question about the online app yes you'll still be able to use the mobile sync with your accounts. 

First thing would be to find a working file here. Do you have a flash drive or potentially a cloud backup that you've previously used? If you do that'd be a place to start with so we can try accessing the file. The other thing is that if you have a local IT shop or computer services chain store (Best buy, Staples, Office Depot, Etc) all should have services that should be able to help with recovering hard drive data.  Recovering it will allow us to ideally get a file we're able to work with.

Once you get a file that was previously on your PC the article here should help guide you through converting the PC file to a Mac file. If you do run into issues past this I would recommend contacting quicken support to see what the best actions are to convert the file.

Thanks,

Quicken Francisco

 

 

Kaleym

Thanks Francisco.