Bye bye Quicken Essentials

Like many others, just found out QE is useless on Sierra. Wasn’t even given a heads up on it. After searching, I decided to get Checkbook Pro as I needed something simpler than QE anyway. Setting up Checkbook Pro was easy, but importing the QE files was not as easy as the YouTube videos I found. For any other newbies, I found that you had to set up an account (any name will do, you can change it later) before you can import the file(s). Once you have an account set up, THEN you can go to File>Import>Quicken Essential Mac. Locate the backup file (.quickenbackup), double click, click on “data”. That finally got me to where I could import each account I had. I wrote down each account I had in QE, then went back and created them in Checkbook Pro. Then I could go and import each account from the data file into CP. Time consuming, but it worked.

I also saw some reviews that said you couldn’t rename the original file name when first opening up Checkbook Pro. Once I was done importing my accounts from QE, I closed out CP, when into Finder>Documents and renamed the original file.

Also saw where someone didn’t like the colors. You can go into the Preferences and change those colors to whatever you want.

I only gave it four stars since I’ve literally only had it about an hour. I had hoped to be able to link my bank or credit cards, but unless I’m missing it, can’t do that. That was the one thing I did like about Quicken Essentials, but I can live without it. I think I’ll be happy with Checkbook Pro, and thanks to the developer for making a cost friendly app.

TuscanCharm about CheckBook Pro, v2.5.12