You should see their online product. My employer used it for a while for time-card submissions. Windows-only. IE only. Download of a "Trust us, it's safe" ActiveX control required, with instructions as to how to work around the fact that recent Windows versions don't think it's too hot that you do that. If you had a Mac, their suggestion was to buy Parallels or the equivalent. That's burying the chutzpah needle if you ask me. Plus, the package sucked in the usability department. -----Original Message----- From: Vaughn Treude To: Main PLUG discussion list Sent: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:31 pm Subject: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format Hello: For quite some time I've been wanting to move my company books form QuickBooks to GnuCash or some other Linux application. I was having difficulty finding a way to convert my existing data, but I procrastinated. Recently something happened that convinced me to do it. Sad story follows: I have a copy of QB Pro 99 I need to move to a newer Windoze computer, yet when I installed it, it refused to read my data files, because they were from a "newer" version. Huh? What I believe caused that is the fact that I allowed Intuit to update my QB99 online. I've posted a question to their forum. If their answer is "buy a new version", I swear I'll never give Intuit another nickel. I did some searching and discovered a product called DataBlox (a Windows product, at datablox.com) which claims to be able to extract data from all QB formats. It costs $99 and even if this is more expensive than buying a new QB, at least I wouldn't be giving my money to Inuit. Does anyone know of any cheaper alternatives? I'm having trouble locating "quickbooks hacks" because there are at least 100 programs out there to recover lost QB passwords, which causes Google to return a lot of noise. While googling I've also found a lot of examples of Intuit's obnoxious business practices. The worst was requiring banks to pay extra to support Quicken for Mac, which means that a lot of banks won't support Mac users, even though THE FILE FORMAT USED IS IDENTICAL. It is an a totally artificial crippling of the product. (BTW, the poster found a workaround by configuring his copy of QB with a different bank's ID.) Intuit is probably losing money doing this - unless MS is paying them off to discourage the Mac - which I doubt, since MS makes most of its money on Office, not the OS. Intuit is evil! Vaughn --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss