It was the customer service (lack therof) that broke my
back. I probably started using Quicken shortly after it
came out. Went through various upgrades over the years.
Quicken 2003 was my downfall. Converted from 2000.
Constant mess. They tried to help but the only answer
seemed to be "too much data".

I am doing a side by side as well. I had some problems
converting because some old, unused accounts
were "hidden". Once I fixed that the conversion went
smooth. So far I have seen a number of thing in Money
that I like better than Quicken. Looks like I will stay
with it for awhile. Best of luck with yours.

Jim
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"Jim Kenworthy" <jkenworthyjr[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<017501c3673a$93049120$a301280a[at]phx.gbl> ...
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Jim,

I am currently running Money 2004 trial alongside Quicken 6 Deluxe
(that tells you how long I've been a Quicken user.. but never
considered an upgrade 'til now). I don't recall having any hidden
accounts, but have a number of unused accounts (closed or no activity
in years). My accounts converted from QW6 without a hitch.

I have no complaints about Intuit's service or product except for two
things:
1) the Safecast/C-Dilla fiasco from last year
2) I wish Quicken had a trial version like MS Money 2004.
3) OK, make it 3 things. Customer service is expensive, should you
need it.

Perhaps I've lived in a protected world with the old version of
Quicken and just don't know any better. ;-)

Currently, I'm vacillating between Money 2004 and the as yet untried
Quicken 2004. I have bought both products and returned them without
breaking the seal. Sure wish a trial version of Q was available.

In microsoft.public.money, Jim Kenworthy wrote:

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Now that's informative. You might want to respond to
Subject: Should closed accounts be temporarily "opened" before
running Salv.exe?
Date: 2003-08-19 02:04:02 PST

posting with your discovery.

Chris,

I discovered something last night.

I like you, used Quicken religously for the last 10
years. I very disappointed with their service and current
prodcut so I am considering a change. Anyway, the
conversion is not easy and I am obviously having trouble.
My data finally converted. I have to go through and
delete all my "hidden" and unused accounts. Once I did
that, Money converted the remaining data. Hope this helps.

Jim
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Hi, Bob,

At the stage I'm at -- I've just installed Money -- I
don't have an "import" function on the menu, and Money
won't let me "open" the QIF. It *will* let me open
a "Quicken" file, but it only loads the standard Quicken
DB, not the QIF, and just takes me through the same import
process that fails.

I managed to create a "new" Money DB, and after asking me
for all the spurious info, I did get to the point where it
automatically tried to import the QIF file I double-
clicked on earlier. But it failed again on "three errors"
that seemed to imply my QIF file was corrupt, and nothing
came through.

I then found I had "import" on the File menu, and found
directions for getting to a QIF file, which I did, and was
promptly greeted with the error message "Money could not
write to your Money file. The operation cannot be
performed or another task finished this operation before
you. Please try again."

Bob, I've been a Quicken user for 10 years, and a systems
programmer for 25 years, and this makes no sense to me.
(Microsoft, I expected MUCH better!!)

Chris

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