I’ve known about this Rosetta business for months. I’m sorry, but I can’t wait that long to take action. Aaron Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group, previously told TMO’s Dave Hamilton that “Intuit is working closely with Apple …to possibly embed specific Rosetta libraries into Quicken For Mac 2007.” Intuit will let us know by “the end of this summer” if this will actually happen or not. So, after upgrading to Lion, it’s adios to my old Quicken. Unfortunately, Apple is not supporting Rosetta in Lion. Why? Because Quicken 2007 remains a PowerPC program and thus requires Apple’s Rosetta software to run on Intel Macs. Quicken 2007, or any older version, will not run under Lion. I have no desire to switch to another product at this point. I put up with its flaws, only occasionally grumbling. Like an old married couple, we’re comfortable with each other.
I remain stuck at Quicken 2007 (the last version that Intuit released). I have used Quicken as my financial manager, for better or sometimes worse, since the 1990’s. And my first OS-related hassle, which I have to confront even before updating to Lion on my main Mac…will be to decide what to do about Quicken.
