Migrating app and data from old Mac

Question

Hello: for reasons I wont bore you with I have the misfortune to migrate to a new macbook and I have to get Quicken, it's data and settings transferred over manually.  Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this?  I was thinking I would have to redownload a new clean version of Quicken and then manually move my files over to somewhere on the new mac.  Thoughts?

And then how to make sure the transactions download as usual

DrWayne · Answer

A success story, just for your information: With a new MacBook Air, with the M5 processor, I used the Migration Assistant, which worked perfectly, except for Quicken. I was unable to create or use Quicken backup files. (Using backup functions resulted in a persistent spinning color wheel.) Everything else worked. I spent hours having ChatGPT walk me through all possible fixes, including finding and deleting all references to Quicken in the files named Library/Caches, Library/Group Containers, and Library/Application Support. The problem persisted, and ChatGPT finally had me create a new MacBook user name with which to use Quicken. That worked but was inconvenient. On a whim (otherwise known as non-artificial intelligence), I went back to my original login and deleted Cache files that did not even contain a variation of "Quicken." That solved the problem completely.

Bottom line: Delete caches first.

jacobs · Answer

If you have the new Mac and old Mac, did you use Apple's Migration Assistant to move all your Mac's apps and date to the new Mac? If so, your Quicken application, data files, backups and settings should have been seamlessly transferred to the new Mac. Simply double-click on the data file, you'll be prompted to log in with your Quicken ID, and you should be off and running.

That applies if you were using the current or a recent (past ~7 years) version of Quicken Mac (e.g. subscription Quicken, even if you didn't have a recent active subscription).

If you had Quicken 2015, 2016 or 2017, the current Quicken Mac (subscription) will be able to read your older data file(s) and convert them to the current format. Let us know if that's the case, and we can give specific instructions.

If you were using the very old Quicken 2007, the conversion process is more complex, but the current Quicken Mac (subscription) will be able to read your older data file(s) and convert them to the current format. Let us know if that's the case, and we can give specific instructions.

If you were using a version older than Quicken 2007, you may be out of luck, but it depends on exactly what version was on your old Mac. Let us know.

smayer97 · Answer

Are you already a Quicken subscriber or were you using an older version of Quicken? If the latter, what version? If the former, start with RickO's instructions.