If I upgrade to OS X 10.7 (Lion), will Intuit Quicken still work?

I heard that my Intuit Quicken 2007 which I use for balancing my checkbook and other business accounts won't work on Lion. Is that true? I am so dependant on it that I have postponed my Mac's OS upgrade to Lion. What can i do to work around this issue?

Solution 1:

No, Quicken will not run or work at all under Lion, since Quicken was designed as a PowerPC app, which relies on "Rosetta" emulation (built in to OSX, but no longer present in OSX Lion) to work.

For more info, go here.

At the moment, you should wait until Quicken is updated to Work under Lion, or if you can get by with "Quicken Essentials" (which does work under Lion), you could use this instead.

Solution 2:

Unfortunately, no. Quicken 2007 requires Rosetta which Apple has decided to leave behind in their OS. MacWorld.com has a great article here with some great alternatives, but right now, you need to either give up Quicken 2007, or wait on Lion until you are ready to do so.

Dual booting is also possible, but it's not a convenient solution to just run banking software.

Solution 3:

fwiw, I moved to iBank, and love it. It handles transfers between accounts much better than Quicken ever did. It's really mac like, and helps me at tax time. There are a number of others as well, and many have great Quicken import capabilities.

I've never looked back, and converted accounts from 1991 to iBank with ease.

Hope this helps.