Intuit has not been especially helpful to its Mac user base the company’s advice to users with this problem is to open an account with Intuit’s online financial service. As a result, Quicken 2005 (which I was running), Quicken 2007, and the Quicken File Exchange utility won’t run on a Mac running Lion. Moreover, the Quicken File Exchange utility included with the current version of Quicken – used to import data from earlier versions or Windows versions – is also compiled for PowerPC Macs. Although all Macs have used Intel CPUs since 2006, Intuit coded all Mac versions of Quicken prior to the current Quicken Essentials 2010 for PowerPC. Migrating to Quicken Essentialsīriefly, Lion no longer includes Rosetta, Apple’s software that, in previous versions of OS X, allowed Intel Macs to run software created for earlier PowerPC Macs.

In July, I wrote in Using Quicken for Mac? Read This Before You Upgrade to Lion about issues that I – along with any Mac user running an older copy of Intuit’s Quicken personal finance software – would be having when upgrading to OS X 10.7 Lion.