The only purpose of this thread is to compare notes about what's making the new quicken version unstable.
We have a thread focused on whether quicken 2007 is worth the money to upgrade. All posts concerning reviews, general impressions of the program, etc would fit nicely there.
So far, I've noticed that Quicken Home and Business 2007 will crash every time I do a "one-step-update" that includes any of my Capital One credit cards. Once those are removed, I have a better than 50% chance that it will complete without crashing.
Other notes about what causes and fixed problems for you would be appreciated.
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I have a Cap one card I never use but it is included in my 1 set update. And my quicken never crashes when doing 1 set update.
Only problem I have noticed with Quicken is when I goto Home Inventory I get out of memory error and program quits.
Here is a list of banks in 1 set update.
AMEX - direct connect BOA - direct connect Citi- Direct connect for all checking and savings and credit cards and web connect for CD and brokerage. Chase - direct connect Cap One - direct connect HSBC - direct connect Fidelity - direct connect Ingdirect - web connect MBNA - web connect Vanguard - direct connect
I have Quicken Home and Business 2007 just like you. Yes I have only 1 Cap one card. Only reason I dont cancel it is because it was opened in 1988 so it one of my older cards. Personally I think Cap one is one of the worst CC compaines out there. There rewards program sucks. They never offered a good BT as even on there 0% offers there is a 3% no cap fee. My interest rate is is fixed 6.99% but I never carry a balance so that is a mute issue for me.
DaveHanson said:Thanks, interesting. Perhaps its the comibation of my high number of accounts (100+) and the cap1 update that causes the problem.
LOL could be I have no where near 100 accounts. I have 21 accounts total between banking, brokerage and credit cards. I am only connecting to 12 places to get all thoses downloaded. That is counting Citibank 2X 1 for direct connect and 1 for web connect. Btw I forget USAA account which direct downloads.
Maybe you running into a memory limitation or something.
dolmar said:Maybe you running into a memory limitation or something.You know, I'd think that too, except that removing cap1 generally seems to cure the problem, even when I add other accounts.
Your experience does suggest that perhaps I'm encountering some weird combination glitch or the like.
I got Q2007 Premium and about 2 dozen accounts (no cap1 though) but it's never really crashed on me. Now and then (more often than with Q2006), it doesn't update accounts very smoothly but it's not crashing at least.
I noticed that it doesn't like anything that takes upload bandwidth. It probably competes with connecting to various institutions and may time out on some of them resulting in errors.
Did you see any of this reported on the quicken 2007 forums on their support site?
I have home and business 2007 too. I only have it set to update with discover card (where it automatically dl's transactions w/out me having to login to discover's site).
Out of 10 times, it might crash 8 or 9 times. Pretty bad IMO. It's not one of the crashes where the application has caused a fault of somesort, it just completely shuts the program down, no message, no nothing. At least the data is not lost.
I'm almost at the point where I'm ready to go back to the 2006 version and wait for sp1 or sp2 of 2007 to come out. Fortunately I only have to enter a few transactions to bring 2006 back up to date.
Maybe anyone can share experience with Money2007. I am considering about using Quicken or Microsoft Money. The author on PC Magazine gives a lot of credit to Quicken Premier 2007.
"Quicken Premium 2007 is better than anything Microsoft has done with Money" "You won't go wrong using Microsoft Money Premium 2007, but this year Quicken has the edge - Kathy Yakal"
Why do people bother with the latest and greatest accounting software? It is not like a video game where the graphics get better every year.
Get a good, solid version with all of the features that you like and use it for years. V 2005 or 2006 will be cheaper and more stable now that the problems have been addressed.
I can't believe that release qualify (or lack thereof) on newer versions of quicken/quickbooks. How do they convince people to shell out the money for the latest version?
Dave Quicken released a patch that address some of the issues you are having here is what the new updates fixes quoted from Intuit web page:
QUICKEN 2007 RELEASE 2 UPDATE -- October 2006
In this update we made changes to investing and online banking, and added the ability to choose background colors in Quicken Centers.
Quicken 2007 Release 2 Notes
Quicken Centers
Implemented a customer suggestion to provide the ability to modify colors in Quicken Centers. Fixed an issue where the "Spending by Payee" snapshot didn't allow the capability to customize the snapshot by payee. Online Banking
Fixed the following problems: During download, Quicken displays the "Quicken is out of Memory" message and halts the download. Quicken incorrectly lists a financial institution in the "Not Available" area in One Step Update. Quicken crashes while trying to activate an existing account for online account access. Credit Card accounts change from the Business Center to the Cash Flow Center after completing a One Step Update session (Quicken Home & Business only). Investing
Fixed the following problems: Quicken incorrectly displays the correct total for BUYMF and SELLMF transactions. Incorrect cash balance after using the Remove Shares action to remove shares of a security that uses average cost as the cost basis method. Quicken incorrectly sets up a Single Mutual Fund account type as a Brokerage account type. An Invalid Protection Fault is generated when canceling a quotes update. Scheduled Transactions
Fixed the following problem: Quicken crashes when entering a Scheduled Transaction from the Scheduled Transaction List. Calendar
Fixed the following problem: Future dated transactions resulted in an incorrect running cash balance in the calendar. Backup
Fixed the following problem: CDRW backup failed when using a 3rd party formatted CD
Thanks dolmar. I was notified of this update by quicken before reading your post.
When I first tried to apply it, it killed the installation altogether...I had to reinstall.
After reinstalling, it worked ok. But then when doing a one-step update, it crashed abruptly 3 times before downloading everything. So obviously it didn't fix everything (big surprise)...
If I detect a pattern to this with the new updated R2, I'll post.
I've had the same problems with previous versions, but I've been using it too long to try to switch to something else. To this day, I still backup every single time before I do a one-step update.
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