Opening Quicken 2015 on Mac

ozmalkins

When I open Quicken 2015 on my iMac or Mac Book I get the get the following pop up "Quicken 2015 needs to be installed in the Application folder'. This happens every time I open Quicken 2015. Quicken is already in the Application folder on both computers. I click 'Install' and Quicken opens and is usable. Anyone experienced this issue?

jacobs

What version of macOS are you running?

I still have Quicken 2015 on my MacBook Pro running Mojave, and it launches without the problem you describe.

I recall a problem which occurred on rare occasion where an invisible file caused Quicken to think it needed to be installed in the Applications folder when it was already there. Try this:

• Press Command+Shift+. (That's Command-Shift-Period) This command toggles macOS to show hidden files.
• Open the Applications folder.
• Look to see if there is a folder named "Background" containing a hidden PNG file named "background.png"
• If so, that's the culprit.
• Trash the Background folder.
• Press Command+Shift+ again to toggle off the visibility of hidden files.

Now launch Quicken, and you should get past the issue.