Locking transactions with password before a specific date (Q Mac)

Are we going to be able to lock transactions before a specific date?
I know there's been talk of it in the past. I'm just hoping Quicken and Intuit will listen. You would think after all the technology and money we spent on these programs that this could be implemented. We can have a car drive by itself, but we can't lock transactions so they are not edited before a specific date with a password??? I just wonder if anyone is actually listening.
I deleted a transaction a couple of days ago from 2009 and that messed up the entire registry. Think how hard it was to find, after days of not knowing when it happened lol.
Using Quicken Classic Deluxe Version 8.0.1 on a 2017 iMac.
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Are we going to be able to lock transactions before a specific date? I know there's been talk of it in the past…
@Sasulkey There is an Idea post (a feature request) for such functionality which you can view here:
That request currently has only 9 votes, which means it has not yet been forwarded to the development team for consideration. If you haven't already voted, click the View Post link above and add your vote in the yellow box under the top post. And add a post in that thread about your recent issue, as the developers like to understand actual use cases when they evaluate features to implement.
I'm just hoping Quicken and Intuit will listen.
Just FYI, Intuit has nothing to do with Quicken these days, except in the area of connectivity to financial institutions, which Intuit handles for Quicken under contract. Quicken has been a separate company from former parent Intuit for 9 years.
You would think after all the technology and money we spent on these programs that this could be implemented. We can have a car drive by itself, but we can't lock transactions so they are not edited before a specific date with a password??? I just wonder if anyone is actually listening.
It's not an issue of where anyone is listening, it's an issue of how they prioritize hundreds of feature requests. Quicken is pretty complex software and we all use Quicken differently, so what's important to you might not matter much to me and vice versa. The developer shave to try to assess which of many, many feature requests to tackle and in what order. The Mac development team at Quicken is small and can only tackle a limited number of new/enhanced features each year. They definitely do make steady progress, but it's slower than anyone (including the folks at Quicken) would like.
As I noted above, there was a request for this feature created two years ago, but it has not yet received a lot of votes from fellow Quicken users. If the Idea topic gets more votes, it gets forwarded to the development team for evaluation. They look into whether it is feasible, how much work it would take, and how important they perceive it to be. If/when they put it on their development schedule, the status of the Idea is changed to "Planned", which lets us users know it will definitely be implemented, although we get no clue how far into the future it is on their roadmap.
The issue is not whether it is technologically feasible to create a way to lock transactions prior to a selected date; it's an issue of how this should be prioritized among all the other feature requests clamoring for the development team's time. More votes for Idea posts is one way users can help influence that prioritization.
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I would like to cast my vote, and join the growing chorus…………requesting an improvement to Quicken which would allow a user to go in, and lock the transactions of a previous year or 'time period'. Whether it be with a drop down box lock, or a password, makes no difference in my case. I would just appreciate knowing that I as the user couldn't inadvertently go in and place a transaction where it would goof up my information for two past years, and take 2-3 days to find my error. Thanks for allowing us to express our votes for improvements.
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For anyone reading this thread who would like to see this feature for locking old transactions to prevent accidental changes, you need to go to the top and add your vote in the yellow box.
Go to this thread… https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7931857/close-books-lock-freeze-old-transactions-with-password-qmac
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We were able to do this before, and now you cannot. You can do it in windows version currently. I wonder if you can do it on the online version. I’m not switching anytime soon but just wondering.
I’m confused on why they took it out. Were people voting to have it removed? Just doesn’t make sense on why they would remove a feature. Like I said we can have the technology to have cars drive themselves but not keep a simple feature. There had to be a reason why they removed it.Thanks for your insight.
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@Sasulkey It may have been in the old version of Quicken Mac before they started rewriting it from scratch in the late 2000's, I can't recall now. But I don't think the modern version of Quicken Mac has ever had that feature. So it's not so much that they took it out, but rather that they haven't put it into the new version (at least not yet).
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@Sasulkey To add to what @Jon said, the thing to understand is that Quicken Mac was rewritten completely from scratch, starting about 15 years ago. Former parent company Intuit gave it very limited resources, so it started as a very limited, bare bones program. Over the past decade, and especially once Quicken separated from Intuit, the developers have continually added additional features, significantly guided by user feedback about which missing features are most important to the largest number of people. But there are hundreds of features, both large and small, still under development, on the development roadmap, or on the wishlist.
So, to be clear, nothing was taken out; nothing was removed from the program. Features which don't currently exist have simply not been built yet Quicken Mac does not yet have all the features of the predecessor Quicken Mac (which began in the 1980s and ceased development in 2006), nor of Quicken Windows, which has been developed over nearly 40 years.
Cars which drive themselves? A company like Tesla has more than 100,000 employees, while Quicken has fewer than 300. The Quicken Mac development team has fewer than 20 programmers, designers and testers. So development of new features comes at a slower pace than everyone might wish, but improvements/enhancements are made with each release roughly every other month.
And one of the factors which the developers take into consideration is the number of votes feature requests receive on this site. This particular feature request currently has 10 votes, while there are other feature requests which have many dozens of votes, and the top requests have several hundred of votes. This isn't to say the developers go strictly by votes here, as only a small percentage of Quicken Mac users likely participate here — but it does help them get a relative gauge of which features attract more interest. And while a feature like this might seem easy to implement, in most cases there is more complexity than meets the eye. (For instance, locking transactions prior to a specific date needs to function identically in Quicken Mac and the cloud-based mobile app and web interface to insure there are no holes or backdoors.)
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