What happened to quicken? (Another slow performance issue)

ddurante · February 18

I have been on quicken 100% since the DOS days. I am not sure what the problem is (actually I am pretty sure but I'll be modest) but with each new version it seems to get more fussy and sluggish. Why is this happening. Please don't tell me its my PC or a corrupt file. I myself am a programmer working for the big guys. Did I slip and say MS oops.

eeyore6802 · February 22

I think the initial purpose is that for those of us that have long used quicken with no problems, it seems like more of us are having issues now. Its hard to sit there and pay money for a program that you can hardly use because your constantly uninstalling and reinstalling it. The past month I've spent more time doing that then actually doing any work in quicken.

MontanaKarl · February 18

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mshiggins · February 18

Well if the fussiness and sluggishness was entirely related to the program code, Quicken would be fussy and sluggish for all Quicken users. That does not appear to be the case as there would be orders of magnitude more complaints on that if all Quicken users were impacted.

Can you ask MS to bring back Money? We still get former Money users here mentioning their disappointment with the discontinuation of MS money.

Gopher651 · February 18

> @mshiggins said:
> Well if the fussiness and sluggishness was entirely related to the program code, Quicken would be fussy and sluggish for all Quicken users.

Unless it's how it handles individual data files. I would guess no two data files are the same and users don't always use the same features and functions. There are many users with a decade or more transactions. I would imagine the odds of a bad entry may be high that Quicken may not handle cleanly.

Chris_QPW · February 18

Do you have a purpose for this post?

This might look like a question "What the heck happened to quicken?", but it isn't.

No more than this statement is useful to a programmer "Its broke, fix it." (with no extra information).

eeyore6802 · February 22

I think the initial purpose is that for those of us that have long used quicken with no problems, it seems like more of us are having issues now. Its hard to sit there and pay money for a program that you can hardly use because your constantly uninstalling and reinstalling it. The past month I've spent more time doing that then actually doing any work in quicken.

ddurante · February 22

I agree with the last comment. It takes forever to open my data file. The screen goes to black and an error "Quicken is not responding".
Same goes for doing an online update windows curser spins for a very long time. Everything is sluggish. I have been using Quicken since the days of DOS late eighties. The last 6 months to a year the product has issues. Look, I love Quicken but all the recent updates have corrupted its operation.

[email protected] · February 25

I wish I was only dealing with sluggishness issues. I'm one of the unfortunate users who is dealing with Quicken randomly deleting entries that were reconciled early in 2022 and now have to figure out what those transactions were. If it were just one transaction, it would be annoying but manageable but have to figure out who knows how many transactions is like finding a needle in a haystack. Not the way I'd like to be spending my free time.

ddurante · February 26

I will not bother posting since there are some folks that use the site to put down others for leaving comments about issues they have with the software. This site is here to ask for help or to see if others experience the same issues, it's not be told you do not know what your doing. As I said I have been using Quicken since the DOS version in the late 80's. I never had issues till the last year. Someone earlier basically made the accusation it was all my fault that others are using it without issues. So if it ran well for me for nearly 50 years and then issues starting popping up why would anyone think it's my lack of knowledge of the program. Must have been a millennial. LOL

mshiggins · February 26

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20342273#Comment_20342273

If you are referring to my response, your original post did not seem like you were asking for help. Do you want help or are you just here to lodge a complaint?

What happened to quicken? (Another slow performance issue)

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