Migrating Quicken 2017 from old to new computer
For what its worth, the solution posted by chlpatent in this thread worked for me
Specifically, I am migrating from my fifteen-year-old PC running Windows 10 to a new MacBook Pro. I installed Quicken for Windows 2017 from my original media onto the Mac using CrossOver Mac, a well-supported distribution of WINE. Crossover grabbed the required various Microsft.NET and Visual C++ 2008 Redistrubutables that are pre-requisites, then installed Quicken.
After installation and before first run, I copied folder C:\Program Data\Intuit\Quicken\Config from the working installation on the old Windows 10 computer to the new installation at /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Quicken 2017/drive_c/ProgramData/Intuit/Quicken/Config. This appeared to facilitate the new install to be successfully registered. On first run, Quicken prompted me to open my existing QDF, which came up perfectly.
Hope this helps others migrating from Windows 10, as it nears end-of-support, to Windows 11, or even a Mac or Linux. Thanks chlpatent, much appreciated.
ScarberiaDude
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@ScarberiaDude I thought it was challenging enough to get Q2017 working on a new Windows machine, but you went next level up with installing on a Mac!
Just to confirm, this is the post from chipatient that did the trick for you?
Quicken user since Q1999. Currently using QW2017.
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@mshiggins Sorry for the delay. Yes, this is one of several posts that had the right information to get QW2017 working on a new computer.
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