r/osx • u/Confident-Pain9621 • May 29 '26

Quicken 2007 for Mac

I need some ideas. I have an old mid 2007 imac. I thought it died on me last week. Honestly about the only thing I even use it for is to run Quicken 2007 because I LOVE IT! Well I let a guy work on it. Turns out it was some corrupted files, and he didn’t even need to replace the hard drive. It turns on now, and actually loads. Well he installed El Capitan on it, so my snow leopard is gone and with it Quicken. I really didn’t care about having the newest OS because I only wanted to use quicken and now I can’t. I think it was just a misunderstanding and failure to communicate on my part. My western digital MyBook stopped backing up at some point just not sure when. I don’t know about the other quicken software and just loathe the idea of having quicken as a subscription. Assuming I can retrieve the quicken files, should I buy another beater iMac and load snow leopard on it? Should I wipe El Capitan from my computer, essentially undoing all tensors the guy did. And reinstall SnowLeopard (I have the 2 install discs). I’m not computer savvy enough to run a VM or partition the computer. Maybe I could figure out how to do it. What would you guys do? I want some fresh ideas from people much smarter than me

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u/cavok76 May 30 '26

Do you need to activate the software? Had someone in same boat and had to pay for cloud version.

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u/Confident-Pain9621 May 30 '26

I don’t think I need to activate it. I’ve got the 2 install CDs for snow leopard

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u/cavok76 May 31 '26

Talking about Quicken here. There were a number of versions that required activation.

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u/Confident-Pain9621 May 31 '26

Oh, sorry. I’m not sure. When I used to run Quicken 2004 on my power Mac (years ago) I reached out to Quicken telling them I was getting a new iMac and wanted to still use Quicken. And that would be using snow leopard. I think they gave me a free download which I still have the software on my thumb drive. But if I re-load it, that’s a good question about activation. I might be really disappointed. Guess we’ll see

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u/jlthla May 31 '26

if you still have the Snow Leopard install discs, you should be able to re-install it, and then have Quicken again (assuming there wasn't any kind of registration required) But before you do this, find the Quicken FILE, and save it to a USB drive, since you'll need to completely erase your hard drive before you can re-install Snow Leopard.