Meanwhile, you could continue using Quicken 2007, and if you decide to return the new Quicken, you'd be set to continue with 2007 and TurboTax 2020 for this next year. Quicken allows a refund within 30 days of purchase, so you could install the new Quicken, import your data, and spend a few weeks poking around the new program to see if you encounter any showstopper issues. If you upgrade your Mac to Mojave in order to run TurboTax, then you can purchase Quicken Mac and give it a try - without being locked out of Quicken 2007. Seeing that writing on the wall, you might might to make the jump forward this year. Of course, Mojave is the absolute end of the line for Quicken 2007, so if TurboTax requires Catalina next year, you'll need to upgrade. Quicken 2007 runs fine, other than automatic backups not working and creating the need to manually create backups periodically. If you want, you can keep using Quicken 2007, along with the new TurboTax 2020, by upgrading your Mac to Mojave. (I have a backup from which I could get the missing transactions, but I decided it wasn't critical to know how many trips to get Dunkin Donuts coffee she made in 1996! ) Again, neither of these problems occurred in the import into modern Quicken Mac I just became aware of them and found the problems existed in my Quicken 2007 data unbeknownst to me. These "orphaned" transfers were one problem in my QM2007 data, as was a chunk of transactions in one account (fortunately a not-very-important petty cash account for my wife) which had disappeared somewhere along the way. But I checked in Quicken 2007, and the problem existed there! Quicken 2007's database was good, but it was prone to occasional corruption over the years and years of upgrades and periodic crashes. The log file revealed a number of "orphaned" transfers - meaning the transactions where there, but not linked between the two accounts. (Since everything imported into modern Quicken, I haven't needed to refer back to the old QM2007 for anything the only times I've launched it in recent months have been to help a fellow user with a Quicken 2007 question on this forum.) I've run both programs on different Macs running Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave without any problem. I finally switched this year for good - but I still have Quicken 2007 on my Mac should I wish to fire it up to look back at something. I wasn't always keeping up in modern Quicken Mac because I didn't want to do all my work in duplicate Quicken 2007 was my true "live" data. I ran modern Quicken Mac and Quicken 2007 side by side for five years.
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