DENNYMOREJ  How many coders does it take to engineer a Quicken software for Mac that bring it up to date? It almost 2010 kids. I can't believe Intuit can't find the talent to do a proper upgrade.  
(Version R2)

IGREG  I never did get this or prior versions to work with my bank (Bank of America), even after contacting Quicken support.

Plus the interface is junk.

Only reason I even use it for my checkbook (manually inputed data) is because I paid for it.  
(Version R2)

AIKOUSHA  Why is this constantly phoning home to intuit? It does it numerous times per session and it isn't doing it to check for updates, it does that on startup. No, it keeps doing this when I import a data file, in fact it does it a minimum of two times, and it's notifications of what it is actually doing are blatantly false... "Contacting financial institution" while reading a local xml file on an unconnected computer? WTF?!?

I feel real unsafe just trying this program, I'd be just plain scared to allow this thing access to my accounts on a daily basis... brrrrrrr.

It's easier to just use Excel, more straightforward, and I'm betting, a whole lot safer.  
(Version R2)

ANON BUD  I've just gotta say that I am a satisfied, long-time Quicken user.

True, the interface is not very pretty and doesn't look like a Mac App at all. True, the font smoothing doesn't really exist. True, I've had problems with deleting budgets and having the app crash on me. True, there have been some minor-yet frustrating-stability issues, but as long as I keep regular backups of my info (both on my Mac and Mobile Me) things work out okay.

The benefits:

Quick transactions.

Memorized transactions.

Quick reports.

Transfers between accounts.

One step transaction downloads from my bank, including auto reconciling.

Yes. All the popular apps can do these things, but, for me, Quicken just does it so much better.

I've tried most of the popular apps out there, but keep coming back to Quicken.

Only four stars, though because of what I mentioned above.  
(Version R2)

SIGIL  Just try it! It's a Windows program on Mac 'nuff said...

I don't even use it anymore. Use Quicken Online; it's actually pretty good.   
(Version R2)

WZRDJR  Man, oh man, is this some crappy programming...  
(Version R2)

SUPER_A  Seriously this application is a complete joke. Don't waste your money buying it, it's not hard to find.  
(Version R2)

DELTA FARCE  Ugh. This software is garbage. I think this is the most-hated major app on the Mac.  
(Version R2)

MRBALL  This program does not download data properly. Intuit wants to charge you for text support to fix this program. This is outrageous since text support can't fix it. They refuse to admit that it does not work properly on the mac. They also don't want to bother to fix the bugs.  
(Version R2)

PCHARLES67  Despite everyone's whining, Quicken is still the most comprehensive package and essential if you do anything other than just your checkbook.

I cannot remember the last time Quicken crashed on me.

Although I find the interface works well for me, I would like to see a more standard (perhaps one piece) interface, a PDA application that was not third party, and iPod integration.

I would also like to see a better upgrade path. Right now I refuse to pay every year for the minimal upgrades. In fact I have not bought a copy since 2005 because I got one free with my new Mac. I am not sure whether 2007 really offers a lot of upgrade value for the price, but I will probably upgrade in 2008.  
(Version )

MWHOGAN  Have tried several times now to apply the R6 update, only to wait and wait and wait for the 14 files to be installed with no success. I've confirmed that I have Quicken 2006 R5 but the installer just doesn't seem to want to install. Nothing happens and the rest of my system gets bogged down to virtually locked up until I stop the installation process, which apparently does nothing whatsoever to my existing R5 program. Anyone have a suggestion?  
(Version R6)

RWOODARD  I liked your resonses to the trouble there macupdate person. I will do the same for mine and try to remember that in the future for FTP troubles.

Ralph W.  
(Version R6)

HMFWIC  I have tried to download the R6 update from Macupdate and Versiontracker and all I get is:

Safari canÕt open the page.

Safari canÕt open the page Òftp://ftp.quicken.com/pub/quicken/Qkn_2006_R6_Updater.hqxÓ. The error was: Òunknown errorÓ (NSURLErrorDomain:-1) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.

Anyone know how to d/l the update?  
(Version R6)

WJB3WVU  QuickEntry widget is great when it works, but it's always loosing track of my data file, and then it becomes useless.

Contacting Intuit is absurd. There is virtually no free telephone support, even for new purchases, and their "chat" feature makes me wonder whether any of them speak English, let alone are they able to help. Emails to them return useless advice.

Setting up online accounts is cumbersome, and without support from Intuit you must reley on the institution you're setting up the account with. They can be much more valuable than Intuit themselves.  
(Version R2)

OAKMARIO  This update works fine but I have noticed many error messages in Console since applying this update. It seems the QuickEntry Dashboard widget has some bugs. Here's what I get every single time I view Dashbaord:

2006-12-16 12:55:40.562 DashboardClient[1731] /SourceCache/JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore-418.3/bindings/objc/WebScriptObject.mm:211:[1731] JavaScript exception: Value undefined (result of expression QuickEntryPlugin.isQuickenRunning) is not object.

2006-12-16 12:55:48.961 DashboardClient[1731] /SourceCache/JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore-418.3/bindings/objc/WebScriptObject.mm:211:[1731] JavaScript exception: Value undefined (result of expression QuickEntryPlugin.isQuickenRunning) is not object.  
(Version R2)

DRG  Has anyone tried to use Quicken 2007 for Windows through CrossOver? Is it any better than using Quicken 2007 for the Mac?  
(Version R2)

PCHARLES67  I am not sure whether I am just a happy lucky person, or everyone else is unlucky, but I have never had any problems with Quicken.

I have tried pretty much every alternative out there, including Money Dance, and I keep coming back to Quicken. Moneydance is a really nice application, but when you are tracking stocks and mutual funds as I do I find Quicken is much more helpful. I really like its web based integration.

My experience is based on Quicken 2006 because that was my last upgrade. My next will be Quicken 2008, if it comes out.

Quicken seems to be one of those applications everyone like to bash, even though it is the only realistic solution.  
(Version R2)

SQUIGLES  How hard is it to allow the use of other currencies in this programme?

$ only is narrow minded!!!  
(Version R2)

DRG  I'm moving over to MoneyDance on 1/1/07. It's a little crude compared to Quicken but it is truly cross-platform and as a relatively new program, certainly should get better.

My suggestion to EVERYONE: ditch Quicken and use any of the alternatives out there.  
(Version R2)

BLUESTAR  All these years Intuit has neglected the Mac market in a gigantic way and yet they expect us to shell out bucks for this miserable program. Minor, "window dressing" updates don't do anything. Even if it was given away as "shareware" I doubt anybody would use it...

There are too numerous major annoyances that go on with this program to list here. Calculations are wrong, the impossibility of certain financial operations, the fact that you can't change the font face or size in registers, or general appearance of windows, columns, etc. Overall a big zero to Intuit for delivering a miserable app to us Mac users.  
(Version R5)

DJSHACK  Finally a decent update. For a period of time, I was using iBank, as I could not stand the frequent crashes of Quicken 2006 (especially while the program loads). However, now the program runs quickly and is so far stable. It even loads all my data quicker than iBank (which does have some speed issues).  
(Version R5)

SQUIGLES  Has there been any effort yet, in allowing accounts that don't use the '$' ?  
(Version R5)

RABSPARKS  After reading the horror stories about the "fun" others had in upgrading to Q06, I came to the realization that if you want to use any of the data download features in Quicken, that you have to upgrade. After April 25th, Intuit's basically forcing a significant change in the file formats used for uploading/downloading data, making older versions useless.

So I ordered Q06 for the Mac and held my breath. The first "surprise" was that if you're upgrading from Q03, your stock sales data is no longer accurate.

I found a .pdf file on the install Q06 CD informing me that I would have to go back and check each and every stock/mutual fund sale since the beginning of time. Intuit suggests that before upgrading you print out a complete history of your stock sales. After the upgrade, you go back and do a sale-by-sale check to see which of the data didn't make it over to Q06 intact. I had 35 pages of data and there was no way I was going to do that. I opted to do the upgrade and adjust the 2006 data. I guess if I need the older data, I can always run Q03 and get the information that way.

The second surprise, although I fully expected it from a company that's world reknown for its lack of customer serive, is that the latest CD still requires the user to download and install the latest "fix" software, in this case R4.

I was content with Q03, and if I didn't need the automated downloading feature, I would have stayed with Q03. I don't like it when I'm faced with a decision that amounts to either buying and using Q06 for the downloading ability while losing the historical accuracy of my 8 years of stock transactions OR staying with Q03 and finding another way to input the daily stock prices.  
(Version R4)

KAYEL  Yeah; I, too have installed it without a hitch and it is also running all of my many accounts without problems so far. In fact, I am rather puzzled when I look at all of the negative comments, considering my own experience. I have been using Quicken since my first iMac came with it 6 years ago. Never had a problem, really. What gives?  
(Version R4)

MAURY MCCOWN  Installed R4 without a hitch, and the program runs flawlessly maintaining all 19 of my accounts.  
(Version R4)

SQUIGLES  How hard would it be to put a preference so that it uses the £ and not the $ !!!!!!  
(Version R4)

ELACHOWITZ  I too have been a Quicken user for the longest time... I must say that if you are serious about your financial data - make the switch over to Liquid Ledger

The software does what it says without ANY hiccups (case in point: it imports financial institution transaction data without messing up the dates ->> my BIGGEST pet peeve using Quicken). As an accountant, this app may be more then what most users need, but nonetheless, the interface is clean and intuitive. I will NEVER go back.  
(Version R4)

ANONYMOUS  Quicken 2006 R3 has somehow corrupted my data files (and backup). It's going to cost me again a ton of hours imputing again. Been using Quicken since the begining, and this is not the 1st time for data corruption.

Tech support claims that file size is NOT a factor any longer to corruption problems. I'm a loss as to the real reason. It's sad to see how little care Intuit gives the Mac versions.  
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  Is Quicken UK savy or is this just a US$ programme ?  
(Version R3)

CHARLES AINSWORTH  Lost all quickfill with 2006 and R3  
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  The updater seems to be compressed with Stuffit! What is this…1997? Expander refuses to work on my machine with Tiger installed, so I don't even bother with Stuffed files. Please, all developers, .sit is archaic. Compress your programs and updates with something more contemporary. You wouldn't think of distributing your product on floppies would you? Then get with the times as far as compression is concerned!  
(Version R3)

JOSEPH A HARRIS  I waited several weeks to upgrade from Quicken 2005 to 2006 R3. Yesterday I did it, thinking it would be a good idea to be up to date-- a stupid reason. I had read that there were problems with the new version, but thought that after 3 revisions every bug would be fixed.

After the Q2006 installation, the online downloads for American Express wouldn't work -- serious problems with the PINvault. I called Inuit support which they've outsourced to India. Rep told me I needed to export all data from 2005 and reimport it into 2006, explaining my 2005 file was damaged (even though it worked fine in 2005). Hmmmm. After doing this I lost all quickfill transactions, all online download information (PINs and routing numbers), all saved reports, and all my personally adapted catagories were mixed in with their default ones. Since the rep never asked what release of Q2006 I was using, I assume the news of such things is slow to travel at the speed of light to other countries. I was very, very sorry I tried to upgrade with little reason to do so, and I'm back to Q2005 again. Advice: don't do it unless you've really got a big problem with Q2005. You'll think your working with Windows again.  
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  R2 does not see the newly released R3 update. In fact, I don't recall this feature ever working on Quicken. Add this to the running list of complaints.   
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  Quicken has been one of the most painful love and hate relationships for me. I've used it for 8-10 years now... I can't believe Intuit underserves and underestimates the Mac community to this degree and still expects people to buy it's product. The software has alwyas had a clunky, bad looking interface that shouts "we don't care what it looks like, we're engineers" arrogance. The Mac OS has grown up tremendously and changed over the years with Tiger as it's crowning achievement to date, yet Intuit arrogantly ignores and insults the Mac user with it's neglect of a GUI that is pleasing and/ or easy to work with or to look at. The fonts are always off, the columns are unadjustable, the windows look bad, the general GUI gets an F- in my book. Not to mention a stupid logic to everything.

This program basically stays the same over 4-5 years with insignificant "upgrades" that tries to squeeze some BS feature out of an already bad software program instead of paying attention to the GUI (Graphical User Interface).Do they really wonder why small businesses migrate over to Quickbooks and other accounting programs?  
(Version R2)

HENRY AMMONS  I've upgraded to Quicken 2006 R1 and it seems to be working just fine. I tried to upgrade to R2, but the update cannot find the original application and quits. I've reinstalled Quicken 2006 twice with the same results per the instructions included with the update. Online chat sessions (2) were unable to resolve this problem. Since R1 is working for me I guess I won't worry for the time being.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Based on the reviews placed here and the countless comments regarding Intuit's utter disregard for the consumer I have cancelled my 2006 order. It's quite sad that these complaints persist since Quicken 2001.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  After the R2 update 2006 still quits "unexpectedly when launching." I'm running 10.4.2.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  intuit must have some amazingly lousy quality control. the initial release of 2006 was super buggy, as is evinced by the swiftness of this maintenance update.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  I've had nothing but the exact OPPOSITE expereince with Q2006. I have had no issues whatsoever when moving from Q2005 on ANY of my Macs.

The transition was seamless. Everything is working. Everything is intact. No problems.  
(Version R2)

JOHN O  Garbage of high degree. Imported from 2002 to 2005, then shut down. After next start, got the message, "Unable to load file". No help. No indication of why not. Finally threw it all away, prefs and all, and imported from a CD backup. Seems to work, sort of. I am going back to paper and pencil with eraser if this is the best product they can make. Oh yeah, since almost every software maker can find common formats, howcum these fools can't get it even close. Oh yeah, 2005 crashes a lot. Nothing else on my computer even hiccups. TRASH! Shame on them for charging money for this stuff. Shame on me for paying it. I gave it one star because there were no minuses to pick.  
(Version R2)

SIXTWENTY3DC  in attempting to set up Quicken 2005 for my father on his new imac g5, and import all his data from Quicken 2005 PC, i've come up with just enough evidence that will prevent me from ever using this software again. Not only is it cumbersome and often incompatible, the export process is tedious, and you have a 50/50 chance of everything importing correctly, ESPECIALLY if you track any sort of financial transactions between accounts that deal with investments. We pretty much have to start from TODAY and forget about bringing our 9 years of quicken PC account history to the mac.

by the publisher's own admission, quicken is not compatible between mac and pc, and data loss will occur with certain account types. even the toolsets between versions are different. this is just inexcusable.   
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  I must revise my previous statement made on the 28th. I said it picks a random date from the past to reconcile with the current date info from my bank. It's much worse than I thought. It says I have a certain balance on a particular date, yet when I look in the register on that date, there is no matching balance. Where is it getting this info??? out of it's @$$ somewhere. I tried going to intuits website to try to find an answer as to why quicken can't seem to reconcile to save it's life, well that was a wasted effort. I got this error instead "Can't find bundle for base name GlobalWidget, locale en

Error on Search Entry Widget"

I think Intuit should close it's doors, it's intelligence has obviously already left.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  What a moronic piece of @#$% program! It has yet to be able to reconcile properly. When it downloads transactions it will pick the current date and balance from my bank, then pick some random date in the past in the Quicken register and say that they don't match. Well no @#$%! How about picking the same date to compare balances!!! Doesn't take a genius to figure out that my balance from 3 weeks ago isn't going to match the balance from today. Oh, then I try to reconcile myself. It won't show any transacction prior to last year! This is THE crapiest program I've ever used!!!!!!   
(Version R2)

K. GARD   Well it seemed like a good idea Quicken from PC to my new powerbook. Then I installed this immensely frustration piece of software, which caused me to question my powerbook purchase. My favorite part is using there chat support to explain how d/l transactions failing to work after 1-2 uses. You know your screwed when the troubleshooters go, "oh that's not good." My biggest pet peeve, not being able to sort the register by date, money, etc. How difficult could that be to code???

All this for the low-low price of 80$US. My advice go buy Virtual PC and use MS Money, a much more sophisticated piece of software even when compared to the Quicken PC version. Although it feels like your working on a PIII, at least it works, and in the end that's all i care about.   
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  I have been using Quicken for Mac since 1989. Always felt pretty good about the product until this year when several problems in V.2005 have gone unresolved. Feedback and help from Intuit is non-existent. My finances have not been updated now for 4 months due to program problems. Looking for a new vendor!  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  You would think since Intuits chief is on Apple's Board/Advisors that he could at least pass a note under the table to someone to fix this crap!

No that they have the financial institutions using their software it's time to squeeze everyone :-(  
(Version R2)

BAMBI VINCENT  I resent being forced to upgrade just so I can continue to download data from financial institutions. It's not even an upgrade -- it's a meager discount off full price! So, what are some decent alternatives for longtime Quicken users who've had it?  
(Version R2)

HARRY  We are trying to get this to work in a first generation G4 PowerBook. It will not open, says "application unexpectedly quit". Intuit support is non existant and has not responded to requests for assistance. Difficult product as it should work easily with my Mac.

harryb2678@aol.com  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  "Accept All" now doesn't work in downloaded transactions.  
(Version R2)

THOMAS  I've been using Quicken for a dozen years and changing now would be rather disruptive. I had been using Quicken 2002 but it was unstable. Hoping that Quicken 2005 would be more stable under MacOS 10.3.7, I "upgraded". BIG MISTAKE! After entering a bunch of data I found that Quicken 2005 cannot properly print voucher checks if (as is frequently the case) you need to make a vertical adjustment to the printing position. My recommendation: DON"T UPGRADE ... Stay with Quicken 2002 or find another product.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Head over to:

http://www.macintouch.com/quicken2004.html

or

http://www.macintouch.com/quicken2003.html

and get an eye full of unhappy people. I used to be a big supporter of Quicken, but I refuse to buy it now. They had nothing but disdain for Mac users for ages and have not made up for it since.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  broke my transaction downloads with AMEX. this app gets worse and worse for us Mac users every year.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Quicken is like smoking. If you already are tied into using it you should probably try to ween yourself on. If you do not then DO NOT START! This is a horrible product and filled with bugs.   
(Version R2)

SKYHORSE  I gave up on Quicken for Windows a couple of years before I switched to Mac in 2001: it started forgetting previously reconciled entries, which made trying to do it for current information a nightmare. I used Quicken 2003 for Mac last, and encountered the same problem in it after 18 months. I won't touch Quicken again till they fix their database engine--I don't feel it can be trusted.  
(Version R2)

DOUG EDDY  I too find their Mac program a pretty weak one and dislike the arrogance of their treatment of Mac users. I don't intend to continue with them much longer - will design my own instead.

Read this Intuit - no $$ to plug into your Winders version of your own program.

Support us as valid partners please.

Doug Eddy  
(Version R2)

BARRIKADY  I upgraded without any problem  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Funny that the program itself doesn't know that this update is available.   
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Poor value for those who already have a fairly recent version of Quicken but arguably "worth it" for those who haven't used it yet (or have ancient versions of it).

A more reasonably priced upgrade version (say $20-$25) would be appreciated, and would ensure that I buy it more than once every 3-4 years. Anyone who has 2002 or later already is probably not getting much value for another $60 by upgrading here.

Also, you pay as much for the Mac version as the PC version even though the PC version is more powerful.

On one hand, I hate these developers who developed dumbed down Mac versions for the same price (or similar versions at higher prices), but on the other it's important to keep them developing for the Mac in the absence of other significant competition. (sigh)

Intuit, please revisit your upgrade policy. Expecting users to pay full price for a new version each year really stinks and certainly reduces your sales.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  What a failure: 1.unable to correctly download checking account data properly after numerous attempts. 2.reports American Express electronic payments from national bank as income. 3.no ability to download Visa information automatically.

4. technical support about $10.00 for two minutes.

5. the entire program is not user friendly and forget about help from Intuit.

In the amount of time I spent, I could have written out a budget, balanced my accounts and calculated my mortage with a paper and pencil.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Biggest Problem.....little support for direct connection of data for mac version. Intuit charges banks/institutions separately for providing mac versus windows versions support when allowing direct connect for transactions, therefore most do not offer direct downloading of data for those that use the mac version. This results in a product that can't utilize most of the best features at the majority of financial institutions here in the U.S.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Intuit's Quicken for the Mac has a history of untested/ premature/ buggy releases. This is no different and I'm not surprised at all by the reviews of some unlucky bastards who actually got the new version. Once you have a Quicken that works (after 3 updates over a year while they actually iron out the kinks) DO NOT UPGRADE, stick with what you have otherwise you will be in for a bad experience.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Stick with 2004 if you already have it. This upgrade is not worth it. I had to revert to 2004.

I spent enought time with 2005 to discover that Pocket Quicken will not sync with the 2005 data file. Intuit's web site implies that syncing 2005 with PQ works just fine. This alone was enough to convince me to revert.

I also noted, as did another reviewer, that copy and paste did not work.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Any reason to upgrade from 2004?  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Looks like Copy and Paste doesn't work in the first rev of Quicken 2005.

Oh well.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  I was so dissapointed with how buggy 2005 was that I won't go near an intuit product again. I was talking to a monkey who said that he tested for Intuit. He said if they reported bugs the developers took their bannanas and then beet them until they pooped themselves.

True Story.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  I don't get it. MacMinute originally said that there was a $20 upgrade price. Now the statement and the upgrade offer are nowhere to be found. I just paid for 2004 - I'm not sending another $60.  
(Version 2005)

ANONYMOUS  Fixes the problem with manually clearing transactions, but now Pocket Quicken complains that the file version is too new & won't sync. I expect that's a temporary inconvience that Landware will fix soon.  
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  Lost the ability to clear transactions when I ran the 2004 R2 updater. Went back to Quicken 2003 for Macintosh.  
(Version R2)

TONY  The best I can say is that it does not crash and my data does not seem to have been corrupted.

Do they even have a beta test process on their software?  
(Version R2)

JOEL   I installed the update and lost the ability to clear transactions as well. I spent the better part of an hour doing a support chat with Intuit. We tried everything. Finally, I decided to back-up data and reinstall the original software without the update. All is okay in that mode. I'm waiting for a new update.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  i can no longer manually clear transactions that are already entered in my register. This is completely horrible. WTF? Still get unexpectedly quit errors when trying to unmatch multiple tranactions within the download register window. I am super upset by the time it's going to take to reinstall the previous version. Shouldn't have emptied the trash!  
(Version R2)

IMPISH  I had the same experience as eric2k: I was asked to locate "scheduler" file that is part of the Quicken app package. I clicked on the application itself, and it seemed to work.

One mystery: getting info on the app icon doesn't show the new version number, nor has the modication date changed. The menu item "About Quicken" does show R2, so I guess all is well.... but like Erik, I wish I knew for sure.  
(Version R2)

ERIC2K  I just installed the update and there was a prompt that appeared: "Please locate where Sheduled Updates is" ???

Is this a prompt that many of you have seen or is there a program that is installed on the hard disk that is called "Scheduled Updates" ?

Strange, I thought that this application was self contained... I clicked cancel and all is well --- I just don't want to loose functionality of this feature.

Thanks for the help.  
(Version R2)

JOSHUA_D  That's a huge list of fixes. Thanks for the support!! Keep up the good work..  
(Version R2)

JUSTIN  I have applied the update and haven't had any problems. In fact it looks like a very long list of bugs they have addressed. I had been having Quicken 2004 "unexpectedly quit" on me very often, so hopefully this will help that problem.  
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  Don't do it. Buggy as hell. Cannot quit without force quitting dosen't open the file automatically and god only knows what else. Reinstalled.  
(Version R2)

JIMW  I have been using the R2 version for several weeks now as a prerelease and feel comfortable in stating that it is the ONLY as well as THE reason I would consider upgrading to Quicken 2004. Why? Because with this update, Intuit seems to have finally fixed a number of the core issues and bugs that have resulted in my data getting corrupted every year for the past number of years. This is the update I have been waiting for.

One of the most important fixes for me, that Intuit seems to neglect to mention, unless I missed it, is that finally, if you delete a prior reconciled statement, the transactions associated with it, now also become unreconciled. That was what was supposed to happen but never did for me. I can't begin count the number of hours and days I have spent individually unreconciling separate transactions after deleting a statement in order to clean up corruption issues and errors.

Several other nice touches. If your shorts expire (serious investors know what I mean- others, please just laugh), entry is a little easier and you won't get as many warning messages about entering zero. Also, if you list your portfolio by Account, it won't close up the security listing each time you manually change the price of a Security. This could be a real pain when verifying your monthly brokerage statement against your Quicken listing. You all do this to check for errors, don't you? :-)

Finally it looks like Intuit also took care of some of the readability issues that I had when entering split transactions from the Calendar. In Quicken 2003, text tended to overlap, be cut-off or unreadable. That problem has disappeared with 2004 R2 release.

To summarize: In my opinion the R2 release is reason enough for Every Serious User of Quicken for Macintosh to upgrade to Quicken for 2004. It finally fixes some major bugs that seem to have been in the product for years, many of which lead to data corruption, at least for me. I feel that this is a must have update if you want a stable, reliable version of Quicken to run under OS X. If you just user Quicken for a simple checkbook balancer you my not need it, otherwise, upgrading may save you a lot of grief later on. It looks like Intuit finally got it right this time.

That is not to say it is perfect. There are still so cosmetic errors, such as display check formats for credit card transactions during Calendar mode entry. There are also things that could make the product more user friendly, like "Buy" and "Return" for Credit Card transactions instead of "Deposit" and Withdrawal" or "POS" in Checking Accounts. But I can live with that stuff. What's important is that some of the serious file corruption and crash items have finally been addressed. The rest can be dealt with in their own good time, so long as the core of the product functions correctly.

FYI How did get it "first"? By "screaming" about some of the problems to a kind caring person at the Intuit booth at MacWorld. In return, I had to test some features of it and submit some written reports. There is no such thing as a free lunch.   
(Version R2)

ANONYMOUS  The only bug I had with R3 was occasionally the register would list only transactions from a year back or something. Quit and restart just the register fixed that. Happened evey few months or so. R4 SUCKS> Broke many things. Now I have disappearing fields, failures to accept entries, duplications, etc. Totally buggy update. These occur almost every use and only a program restart will correct it, for a short time. Typical Intuit crap.  
(Version R4)

KWC  Quicken 2003 r4 12.0.3. Easy to use but when I try to Print Register from the File Menu to an HP 5000N I get a printer error message 79.00FE. HP's support document for the error says it is a "tint swatch" error from Indesign. Since I am not using Indesign only Acrobat it must be something Intuit licensed from Adobe? If I install Adobe Reader 6.0 then in Quicken save the "Print Register" to PDF and open in Adobe Reader & print I no longer get the error message.

Much fewer problems with Quicken Deluxe 2002. Also disapointed that it appears some features / cabilities were dropped in Quicken 2003.  
(Version R4)

ANONYMOUS  Your link to quicken 2003 r3 is not correct. How about fixing it.  
(Version R4)

GOGO  Quicken works fine, the update didn't break anything, and the update itself downloaded and installed without a hitch. Looks like they finally fixed things up with us Mac users. :)  
(Version R4)

ANONYMOUS  R3 updater file type does not match disk copy or stuffit creator and type. Don't download from Quicken site. Download here (MacUpdate) and use unstuffit (a free utility) to extract the file. Again Intuit leaves the Mac community out in the cold with such a simple bug fix on their end.

Thank you MacUpdate for providing a .sea file I could finally extract!.  
(Version R3)

ANONYMOUS  I can't get to the update on *any* browser or by using Fetch. Intuit screws the Mac user once again. Sigh.  
(Version R2)

DA WILSON  Investment action lots not visible after r2 update

print register fails when % less than 90 selected in page set up

No response from quicken after email re same problems  
(Version R2)

TIM  FTP error , the software is not avalible to download  
(Version R2)

DRG  Unless, you're having problems with Quicken 2002, DON'T APPLY THIS UPGRADE!!!

I did and it COMPLETELY DESTROYED my finances file, a file that I'd been updating for at least five years!! Every note in every slit that was entered was COMPLETELY wiped away. Thank God I have the program save a complete copy after every close! I had to go back to a copy made several days ago to find one that Quicken 2002 would now open properly. Each copy would be corrupted after opening! A DISASTER. AGAIN, DON't APPLY THIS REVISION!  
(Version R2)