Happily, a couple of hours of poking around the internet revealed a solution: the developers of a competing personal finance product called Moneydance reverse engineered the Quicken Essentials for Mac data format (which is, of course, a different format than all other versions of Quicken), and it is able to import its data. If you went down that road, you found yourself at a dead end. And if you’re running macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, you can’t even open the app to see that data. Just because Quicken Essentials wasn’t popular doesn’t mean it’s ok to hold users’ data hostage.
Intuit spun off Quicken several years ago, but this is still inexcusable in my view. Its support pages are, in fact, disturbingly straightforward about it: “Quicken Essentials files cannot be converted.”
Recently I had a client who had been using the ill-fated Quicken Essentials for Mac, and I was surprised to discover that modern Quicken refuses to import its data. The product has always been second class compared to its Windows version. Mac users have a long and sordid history with Intuit, the original developers of Quicken.
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