I recently turned on Desktop and Documents to iCloud. I’m posting this here on the blog because my Google searches on the topic turned up *nothing*, and the Intuit boards were useless on this topic.I have my Quicken 2017 for Mac file currently stored in my Documents folder on my iMac. It happened to me this weekend, and after a couple days of experiments, I finally solved the problem. (This step is necessary when it’s the first time you are using iCloud.)Only a long time Quicken user will empathize with the trauma of having your Quicken data file fail to open.
![]() Quicken Backup To Icloud Mac OS X 10I’ve used Quicken since 1994 to keep track of my expenses and investments. Your Mac might restart, show Time Machine makes it simple, and other backup methods are also available. Before installing any upgrade, its a good idea to back up your Mac. To upgrade from OS X Mountain Lion, first upgrade to OS X El Capitan, then upgrade to macOS Big Sur. This is the most recent version.Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) supports PowerPC Macs, iTunes 10.6.3, iOS 5.1.1.Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) supports Intel only Macs, but does support PowerPC applications, iTunes 11.4 and iOS 6, and iOS 7.Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion) supports iCloud except for iCloud Drive in its current iteration and the new Notes.Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) (link explains.![]() As Steve Jobs brought the Mac back, Intuit brought back support… but very little enhancement to the product. Circa-2000, Intuit decided that the Mac market wasn’t worth supporting, and effectively ended support for the product. Quicken for the Mac users at some level are masochists. Security already exists.” (Of course it exists, I’ve been tracking INTC for more than 10 years…) It said something like “Unable to create INTC. About 3-5 weeks ago, when downloading stock quotes, I got a very strange error. On Friday, I restarted Quicken and got a spinning beach ball. Periodically, I received that error when downloading stock quotes. After a brief panic, I restored a file from Time Machine from a week prior, and all was forgotten. Good news, the file from November 12 actually works, but all security prices are missing. I select several of the backups, duplicate them, and try to launch them. I go to the “Quicken Backup Folder”, which is created automatically in your Documents folder. I use Time Machine to get an older file. No worries, right? I have multiple backups. I tried five of them from the last three weeks. Time Machine backups don’t work. On Saturday, I quit Quicken and relaunch as part of a reboot. Rift for mac 2017 mmoI delete Quicken 2007 and all preference files, and try to reinstall + updaters. I post a question anyway, even though the community on the boards gives me no confidence of ability to help or desire to do so. But it’s missing the two weeks of transactions. It works, but is missing all security prices. But it gives me an error “Unable to save security”. Seriously, has QIF export ever worked in the past two decades? Will it ever work? Trying to export QIF and reimport into the new file leaves totally bizarre numbers and transactions. Finally, I realize I may have to create a new file, then export/import all the transactions to create a new clean file. Looking inside, I find a data file for “Quotes” and a directory for “Quotes Details”. It’s a fancy name for a directory of files that is tagged to act like a single file for the Finder. The Quicken file isn’t really a file, it’s a Mac OS Package. I like Mint, but I use it differently than Quicken… Launching Quicken with the corrupted file led to a spinning beach ball for over 30 minutes Everything is wonderful again.So, just to capture some trouble-shooting for you, here is what I saw: I manually re-enter the few securities that don’t have ticker symbols. Select the “Quotes” file and the “Quotes Details” folder Select “Show Package Contents…” from the Finder. Right-click (or control-click) on the Quicken file. Make a duplicate of your Quicken file (always, always have a clean backup) There was a history of getting errors related to the downloaded stock quotes for securities My problems have been similar: Spinning beach ball for no apparent reason, force quit and the message on reopening Quicken is “Unable to load file” not only for the data file but or all of the backups.I too restored a file from Time Machine, opened it successfully, updated the missing information and saved it upon quitting, only to get the exact same “Unable to load file” message. Thanks you for shedding some light.Like you, I use QfM 2007 – R3 since 1994, although I don’t download or save stock quotes. And make sure the import from Quicken 2007 files is * flawless*.Your post appears to be the sole explanation of Quicken’s quirks on the web. Intuit, if you are reading, please get Quicken 2010 (which has been promised for two years) out the door. These steps should resolve the Unable to load file error. Does anyone out there have any other suggestions: It’s late tax filing time and I’m getting desperate.By the way, I share one copy of Quicken among three users and it still works perfectly in two of the user accounts…Fie on Intuit and Quicken if I see another Intuit product in that Apple Store I think I’ll throw a fit.Please excuse me for using your site as a trouble-shooting forum for Quicken for the Mac, but I thought it only fair to Quicken to share the following good news:“Thank you for contacting Quicken Customer Care.In this case I would request you to follow the steps mentioned below. I even purchased and installed Quicken Essentials, but was still unable to open, much less convert any of the files.I followed your excellent description, trashed the “Quotes” folder (there were no “Quotes Details”), but to no avail. Again you will see data file. And again it will open up the box and open Contents folder. Again hold down the Control key and select Data File and click on Show Package Contents. There you will see “Data File”. It will open up box and then open Contents folder. Since things like bonds don’t have ticker symbols, I added symbols like B0001, B0002, etc. I restored the file from a backup and exported the security prices. Quicken would “quit unexpectedly” after updating security prices. Phone support is available from 5AM – 5PM PST, Mon-Fri.I had a similar problem yesterday. Once you do not see “Show Package Contents” holding down the Control key then try to open Quicken file and it will open your file.If this does not work then kindly try to open your back up files.Please open Documents folder and then look for Quicken Back up Folder or Quicken data file folder.Double click on this folder and then you will see your back up files.If the name of your original data file is Qdata.qdfm then name of back up files will be like 1qdata.qdfm, 2qdata.qdfm, 3qdata.qdfm and so on.Kindly try to open the data file with prefix 1.If it opens up fine then please continue with this data file.If you have any back up on CD or flash drive then kindly try to restore that back up file.You can also contact Chat Support, by visiting this URL – To speak to someone over the phone regarding this issue, you can setup a callback request using the following URL. After that, I downloaded 5 years of security prices and I’m back in business. That worked fine (and saved me from having to manually enter the price history for all the bonds, etc.). With a clean copy of the Quicken file (without “Quotes” and Quotes Details”) I again imported the prices of just the funds with the temporary ticker symbols I added. That caused the file to “unexpectedly quit” again.I opened the qif file in TextEdit and deleted all but the bond funds. After re-opening the file I tried to import the entire qif file with all the price history.
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