I had used TurboTax for many years, until last year when I found TaxAct. I used them last year and even used the FREE version. It worked great. I highly recommend visiting http://www.taxact.com/

Bob

What an idiotic practice by Intuit. I am going to look for alternatives for Quicken and Turbotax.

Thanks again!

Piet

Am a Quicken 2004 (UK version) user for many year but had to replace my laptop a few weeks ago and want to use Quicken with 4 years data on my spanking new HP with Vista installed. The problem is i also moved recently and have somehow lost my installation disk

If anyone can please, please, please be so kind as to send me a copy of their UK version disk, that will be most helpful, as i am sure with all the helpful posts here i would be able to install on my HP vista machine as long as i have a copy of the disc.

I have my own registration key and all, so i dont see how this will infringe any copyright issues.

The best way to do this is for someone to use a program like – http://www.magiciso.com/ to make an exact copy or exact image of the disc or use any other program that can create iso disk images and then upload it to one of those free file sharing website, the best i think being rapidshare – check here – http://rapidshare.com/freezone.html and then send me the rapidshare iso link to my email please –

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Thank you very very much!

Scarlett.

However, I was getting that error about “Unable to verify financial institution” and noticed also that my instition did not appear under Online->Financial Institutions. This was even though I verified that my bank (EZCardInfo) does support Quicken for Mac by looking hear:

http://web.intuit.com/personal/quicken/details.cfm?type=basic&fidetails=EZCardInfo%2Ecom&qwid=qw1700&qmid=qm1600&qbid=qb1800&qbmid=qbm1700

I called Quicken Customer Service (excellent…they have you fill in a web page and call you back within 30 minutes; call 1-800-811-8766) and they had me update to the latest “patch” using Quicken’s Check for Updates. Once I did this, installed the update, restarted Quicken, and clicked “Update List” twice (??) under Online->Financial Institutions, the insitution (EZCardInfo) magically appeared. So try this. And don’t forget to Update the list twice…I don’t know why this was necessary. Maybe it was just human error (mine).

I was skeptical that the list for R6 would be different for R3, but it is. Apparently the financial institution list is different for different updates. I’m now at Quicken for Mac 2006 R6 and can use EZCardInfo just fine with Quicken for Mac 2006 (though they support Web Connect only, not Direct Connect…but at least now I can import a QFX file).

It was nice to have a positive customer service experience for once!

I was also getting the error:

Data has been downloaded for an account () that is not defined in your Quicken data file. Contact Quicken customer service [OL-362].

so I had to add the substitution:

| sed -e ‘s/sharebuilder.com/etrade.com/’

to get it to work.

Here is how it happens. After I navigate to and click on the QFX file for Financial_Institution_1 (FI#1), Quicken (that is QW.exe) connects thru the internet to ofx-prod-brand.intuit.com, and then thru the internet to a web site for FI#1. Then a message from FI#1 (really it from intuit.com) that says “…INTUIT HAS DISCONTINUED ONLINE SERVICES FOR QUICKEN 2002…”. Then another message that says “Quicken is unable to verify financial institution information for this download. Please try again later.”

Now my Quicken is CRIPPLED for FI#1. After that, whenever I navigate to and click on a QFX file for FI#1, Quicken does not connect thru the internet, and only the 2nd message appears. But if I navigate to and click on a QFX file for FI#2, the complete process as described above is repeated. Now my Quicken is CRIPPLED for FI#2.

Here is how I recovered from this unfair and unethical action of Intuit. I had a BACKUP of key Quicken Files. I restored 5 files (Q3.DIR, files ending with QEL,HCX,QSD,QDF). I download QFX files onto my computer hard drive as before. I instructed my firewall to block Quicken (QW.exe) from connecting to any address on the internet. Then I open Quicken and import the QFX file for FI#1 into the Quicken account for FI#1. Another way to block Quicken from connecting thru the internet is to disconnect the internet cable or the phone cable from your computer before opening Quicken for importing the QFX file.

Alas, I suspect the majority does not have a BACKUP. Then perhaps an uninstall and reinstall of Quicken might work. This is speculation on my part as I have not tried it.

Any thoughts.

I tried the OFX to QIF converter and it did not make any difference for me (I got the same message).

Quicken advises me that the only solution is to purchase 2008… yeah right. I can think of several other solutions that does not invlove Intuit.

Would anyone know why it would not work 2002? Is it bank specific?