I just purchased Quicken for Mac (version 6.5.1). I have run into what appears to be a fairly common problem: My Quicken 2007 file is not converting successfully. I have read a number of help threads on the Quicken Community and have tried the suggestions I found there but without success.
Here is what I have done already:
• Copied the Quicken 2007 application and the Quicken 2007 data file to an external drive formatted as HFS – MacOS Extended (Journaled)
• Using that copy of the application, I opened the data file and rebuilt the indexes.
• Using Quicken 2007, I saved a copy of the data file on the same disk.
• I quit Quicken 2007, then opened the new Quicken for Mac.
• I used the menu to choose to import the newly saved copy of the Quicken 2007 file. The process seems to progress properly: I choose to upload the file to the Quicken cloud server, it uploads, appears to convert, downloads, but then there is the following error message: Could not import “filename.qdfm” An error occurred while preparing the file to be imported.
This happens when my Mac is booted in macos 10.14.6 Mojave. I will point out that the new Quicken application seems to work fine in Mojave. The only problem is the data conversion.
Just to be thorough, I rebooted the Mac from another external drive that runs Catalina. The results were identical.
Because I saw a suggestion on one of the threads that It would be helpful to compress the data file before copying it to another disk, I tried that. That made no difference either.
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