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Good suggestion on just making a new account!
I'm frugal as can be and my wife hates me but you sometimes do not save anything being cheap if the cost in work, time and labor far outweighs the money spent. We are talking the price of a couple coffees here what are you saving doing all that extra work? One transaction download gets me transaction from 25 or so accounts and is done in few minutes. Just going out and grabbing all the statements would take me hours and it would take days to then enter them. That only gets you to the point where you still need to reconcile and hope that you entered no errors.
How do we account for transfers between accounts, capital gains, 401Ks, payroll deductions etc. would all be other things to work out. That would take more spreadsheet magic and many more hours. Ideally I would be better off learning to program and create a piece of software dedicated to keeping track of finances. Alternatively I can give some few dollars a year to someone that has already done that for me.
What you propose might be possible with one or two accounts but most have much more to keep track of. I love spreadsheets and they have many uses but they are not accounting software.
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I said never again but had Bing points for $10 Amazon Gift Card. I'll try it on my mac for this price.
What does it mean to be a new customer or subscriber? If you can't use the activation code on an existing account & installation then which of these would work:
It seems that one of these methods should work.
extra bonus - i just discovered you can use your Amazon digital credits for software, I had no idea, I thought it was only for books and video.
I never have any use for these credits...will start paying more attention to them now!
I'm frugal as can be and my wife hates me but you sometimes do not save anything being cheap if the cost in work, time and labor far outweighs the money spent. We are talking the price of a couple coffees here what are you saving doing all that extra work? One transaction download gets me transaction from 25 or so accounts and is done in few minutes. Just going out and grabbing all the statements would take me hours and it would take days to then enter them. That only gets you to the point where you still need to reconcile and hope that you entered no errors.
How do we account for transfers between accounts, capital gains, 401Ks, payroll deductions etc. would all be other things to work out. That would take more spreadsheet magic and many more hours. Ideally I would be better off learning to program and create a piece of software dedicated to keeping track of finances. Alternatively I can give some few dollars a year to someone that has already done that for me.
What you propose might be possible with one or two accounts but most have much more to keep track of. I love spreadsheets and they have many uses but they are not accounting software.
I'm just a few months out so I'll take the risk. You may want to check with Amazon for clarity on activation code expiration policy if you're concerned?
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For those wanting to go this route, there are legit Sunset editions of Microsoft Money that they released when they retired the product. Less legit, but out there, are retired 'classic' editions of YNAB (You need a budget). They have moved online for their main product but there are versions that are on archive . org and a config file change activates it for 10 years. (I'm not going to provide the details but they are easy to find)
My father in the 70s and 80s paid an accountant $400 a month keep track of his fairly simple books and he was a blue collar working class guy.
Now for $40 a year I can manage my personal, multiple business finances and near thirty accounts. Can even do my own taxes with the information I have readily at at hand and that again saves me another $500 to $1000.
The question I have is, why do people constantly rage and want to kill the goose lays the golden egg. How can you not see how this kind of stuff has benefited and uplifted the average man and not see how they can now use very low cost tools t to add great ease, value and profit to their lives? I have much more leisure due to these type advances and what i gain there I find almost invaluable.
Do you have some alternative to offer us? Would you do all that work for me for $40 a year? If so you have a job.
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There are a few things that work differently that you just kind of have to get used to... and a few things like the Paycheck Wizard that aren't there at all (but that you can kind of brute force replicate using splits).
But it's a tradeoff, because the Mac version is very, very solid. It was re-written from the ground up a decade or so ago, getting rid of all the old trash code that was building up. The data file is a SQLite database, meaning it's robust and you don't have to continually do data file verifications, and then roll back to an earlier back up when you inevitably find your data file has gone corrupt (again). And it plays nicer with the web and mobile apps, so if you want to use them, you don't have to worry about corrupt data getting sucked down from the web.
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I've been using the Windows version for a while now. It definitely has more features, although I'm still trying to pin all the differences down. Things are definitely missing from the Mac version though which has been frustrating at times. I prefer the look and feel of the Windows version but that may just be because I'm new to the Mac user interface.
However they are clearly struggling with maintaining the Windows version. It runs much slower than the Mac version, feels archaic and janky, and it has lots of little annoying bugs that they clearly have no intention of fixing. I stopped making bug reports because after spending time and energy replicating them for customer services reps was eventually told that it's expected behavior which was laughable.
So the Mac version runs better, but is not feature equivalent to the Windows version. It's really unfortunate you can't sync between the two easily, which there really is no excuse for in 2025 but is consistent with what I've come to expect from Quicken.
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Thank you for the details.
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I noticed I can't manage my Fidelity brokerage account as a "detailed" account or whatever it's called, just "simple" which was surprising and disappointing.
It does feel much more solid than Windows so I will probably just try to make do with it.
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