Bylo Selhi wrote:adrian2 wrote:Now that I'm fully migrated to Quicken 2011...
You don't find the user interface buggy beyond usability?
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I find these sorts of situations intolerable. They've rendered Q11 unusable for me. I'm surprised that you apparently haven't encountered this sort of stuff or if you have, don't seem to mind it.
Update.
I reinstalled Q11 and tried again. This time I found a Preference, Navigation and unchecked "Use Classic Menus." Although I don't see any difference in the menus, now the effects described above seem to have stopped and the software is usable if not user-friendly, let alone intuitive as Intuit might intuit.
One more thing I did to make the software work better. As I've said before I've been using Quicken since the early DOS days in the mid to late 1980s. My main data file (QDF) was over 25MB in size. It contained some 40,000 banking and investment "transactions" spread out over several accounts, many of them now inactive and hidden. As a result performance was very sluggish, especially with US$ accounts. After installing Q11, instead of importing all this from Q09 I decided to start anew. This was a bit laborious because I had to manually recreate accounts and securities. Then I started adding stuff (cash balances, securities, etc.) as of 01May12. It was possible to Add security positions using the ACBs reported by Q09 so that when I was done all the numbers, including cost and market values, were identical to the penny between Q09 and Q11. Amazingly Q11 performance changed from annoyingly sluggish to blindingly fast. The QDF file size dropped from 25MB to 1.2MB.
As far as I can tell the only thing I'm losing by doing this is the ability to report portfolio returns. I can live without that. Actually I don't even have to. If I rename the Q09 files from, say bylo.xxx to bylo.30apr12.xxx, then import into Q11, I can have the old stuff available for the few occasions when I might need it.
Q11 is still an awkward product that does lots of things but few of them well. At least now the software is usable and I've got another two years of online updates.
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