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Intuit Quicken 2003 R5 12.0.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Date problems in Quicken (all versions)
Quicken uses the Mac OS "date formatting preference" to control the way it displays dates or interprets dates that you type. This means that Quicken lacks a separate date formatting rule independent of the system. Conversely, when Quicken bugs force you to adopt a particular date format for Quicken, you have to adopt it for the entire system. Be warned of the following bugs (that have remained uncorrected for several years): 1. If you display the date with four digits for the year, many fields nevertheless allow space sufficient only for 6 digits and two slashes. (A format without separators such YYYYMMDD is not prohibited but won't work.) 2. If you use YYYY/MM/DD order, Quicken occasionally crashes. To recover, you must export all data in an interchange format and then reimport it. This process preserves transaction records, but loses all record of scheduled payments and other such conveniences. (YYYY/MM/DD has many advantages in sorting, and is standard in Japan and some European countries.) 3. Before you export and reimport, you MUST adopt MM/DD/YY format as the system (and hence Quicken) date format. Failure to do so results in trashing your export data. This "feature" is noted in the documentation-- but the persistence of this stupidity for years is probably due to Intuit's indifference (since it has long ben reported). [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 05 2003 @ 09:21 AM PDT
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Date problems in Quicken (all versions)
Quicken uses the Mac OS "date formatting preference" to control the way it displays dates or interprets dates that you type. This means that Quicken lacks a date formatting rule independent of the system. Conversely, when Quicken bugs force you to adopt a particular date format for Quicken, you have to adopt it for the entire system. Be warned of the following bugs (that have remained uncorrected for several years): 1. If you display the date with four digits for the year, many fields nevertheless allow space sufficient only for 6 digits and two slashes. (A format without separators such YYYYMMDD is not prohibited but won't work.) 2. If you use YYYY/MM/DD order, Quicken occasionally crashes. To recover, you must export all data in an interchange format and then reimport it. This process preserves transaction records, but loses all record of scheduled payments and other such conveniences. (YYYY/MM/DD has many advantages in sorting, and is standard in Japan and some European countries.) 3. Before you export and reimport, you MUST adopt MM/DD/YY format as the system (and hence Quicken) date format. Failure to do so results in trashing your export data. This "feature" is noted in the documentation-- but the persistence of this stupidity for years is probably due to Intuit's indifference (since it has long ben reported). [alert admin]
Sunday, October 05 2003 @ 09:18 AM PDT
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getting started was rather slow, but the effort was rewarded. I have been trying to describe old documents that are too blurry and fuzzy to be recognized by OCR. Now I have been reading them aloud. I am very impressed by the accuracy with which it is possible to this, and especially the way it is able to learn new words, even words in foreign languages that turn up occasionally. Since I have some idea just how much analyhsis goes into a task like this, I think it is incredible that the entire thing (including the microphone and headset) can be purchased at such a bargain price. [alert admin]
Saturday, June 23 2001 @ 10:51 AM PDT
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