Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!nsipo.arc.nasa.gov!gutierre From: gutierre@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Looking for info on Quicken 3.0 Message-ID: <36282@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 20 Nov 89 21:13:22 GMT References: <46ad4650.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1118@koosh.omni.com> Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: gutierre@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Robert Michael Gutierrez) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Science Internet Project Office Lines: 64 [sorry for replying to an old article, but I'm catching up on 500+ articles] bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes: >miller_h@apollo.HP.COM (Herbert Miller) writes: >> >> I have Quicken 2.0 and am thinking of upgrading to 3.0. Before I do that >> though, I want to know what 3.0 has that 2.0 doesn't. Specifically, I'm >> hoping that the Reconcile function from the check register will now let you >> specificy an end date to reconcile through. > >Quicken 3.0 is way better than 2.0. As an ex employee of Quicken (I worked in Customer Support) V.3 is much better than V.2 *IF* you use all of the features of it *AND* have multiple accounts. Otherwise, stick to Ver 2. Warnings about Q-3. Make sure you have Release 4 or later (they're up to 5 when I left 1 month ago). DO NOT USE RELEASE 1!!! R-1 had a potential bad file handling problem. Just call customer support and tell them you have R-1, they'll send you a new release immediately. To find out the release, type "r" at the main menu and look in the lower right hand corner. It will say "Release X". Customer support just got a VERY expensive phone system last month also, and the busy signals are a thing of the past with them. Remember, support is free, period. Problem is, it's a long distance call (Menlo Park, Ca.) Other Warnings: With ALL versions, do *NOT* use (repeat: DO NOT!!) ANY memory swapping programs with any Quicken.X versions. The problem is Quicken loads the account in as much memory as possible, and if you swap the program out (ie: PC Tools, Swap, etc...), the memory pointers WILL corrupt, and when you swap back into Quicken, it will write those corrupt pointers into your account files (Ver 2) or Account Group files (Ver 3). If you do, your 60k file will turn into a 1 meg file REAL fast, and you'll just make Bruneau (the disk recovery person) more depressed when you need to send the file into him. Oh yes, NO TSR's EITHER!!! Quicken will attempt to clobber them, and then you get the same results as above. Other tips. Use rebuild (Ctrl-Z) sparingly. Used to rebuild the speedup file (pointer file). Use copy-shrink (ver 3) as much as possible. Copy-Shrink has filters in it to de-corrupt files. Just do Copy-Shrink the whole group, and keep the old acct group as a back-up. That's the first thing disk recovery does when we got a disk in. >If you purchased 2.0 fairly recently, you may be eligible for a reduced >price on the upgrade. Call Intuit and ask -- mine was $8, making it a >no-brainer to upgrade. This is true. I believe the cut-off was when V.3 was released (May???). I never paid attention to Telemarketing, so I'm not too sure. They do have an 800# (call 800 information for the #). >Bob Weissman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Robert Gutierrez -- NSI Network Ops Center | | NASA Science Internet Project, Bldg 233-8, Moffett Field, CA. 94035-5000 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I want some......I need some......Emotion.....And More........" (a song) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------