Anyone successful with Quicken 2012?

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:04 pm

I have been running Quicken 2009 for over a year successfully and the appDB shows Quicken 2011 works well. Because of Quicken's support policy, I am forced to upgrade to Quicken 2012. I have been unable to run it succesfully under Wine 1.3.37. Anyone have any tips? I have filed a bug just in case the issue is not purely local.

jsdowell · Post by **jsdowell** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:41 pm

I have the same problem as you (being forced to upgrade to Quicken 2012). I was running Mint 12, and got stuck during installation when a dialog comes up that said something about my display resolution not being correct. But I could not do anything with the dialog, it was frozen. How I wanted to select the "never show this again" option on it. My only recourse was to kill the quicken install. I tried to change the resolution in the Wine configuration, but then the installation would just crash. I am thinking about going back to Ubuntu 10.4 and trying it again. But I have read that the Microsoft .NET Framework that comes with Wine may be the culprit.

jsdowell · Post by **jsdowell** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:57 pm

I just found this and I will give it a try:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=22198

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:36 am

following the steps in the appdb entry for Quicken 2011, the program at least loads instead of aborting. The initial startup wizard screen freezes as soon as you select anything that opens a file chooser (and in fact misbehaves and plasters itself on top of all windows in all workspaces.)

Still fighting.

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:43 am

After following the process in the entry for Quicken 2011, I was able to run the program by checking the "Emulate a virtual desktop" option in Wine-->Configure Wine. Not the ideal solution but it's at least working.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:18 am

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM, tigerdog <[email protected]> wrote:

After following the process in the entry for Quicken 2011, I was able to run the program by checking the "Emulate a
virtual desktop" option in Wine-->Configure Wine. Not the ideal solution but it's at least working.

If that fixed it, please update the Applications Database with this
information. Also, please create a bug report, if one does not exist,
to state this.

Thank you.

James

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:13 am

jjmckenzie wrote:On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM, tigerdog <[email protected]> wrote:
After following the process in the entry for Quicken 2011, I was able to run the program by checking the "Emulate a
virtual desktop" option in Wine-->Configure Wine. Not the ideal solution but it's at least working.
If that fixed it, please update the Applications Database with this
information. Also, please create a bug report, if one does not exist,
to state this.

Thank you.

James

Will update the entry, though I need to be more methodical and redo the install to find out exactly what of the flurry of things I tried had the effect of un-breaking it and which simply made it work better. It's still a troublesome app compared to 2009 or 2011 versions.

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:59 pm

Further experimentation shows Quicken 2012 will run as long as graphics --> Allow the window manager to control the windows is unchecked. A virtual desktop is not required, however the application is better suited to running with "control the windows" and "virtual desktop" checked, since it allows the user to drag the app onto any desktop.

May be an issue between Quicken and the window manager (tested with XFCE and E17, not gnome or kde).

ryepup · Post by **ryepup** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:06 pm

I'm having some trouble getting this working.

running wine 1.3.37 on ubuntu lucid

I have followed instructions from this forum and from http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=22198 as best I can. Here's what I did:

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winetricks dotnet20
winetricks ie8
winetricks msls31
winetricks gdiplus
winetricks fontfix
winetricks corefonts vcrun6

In winecfg, I have
* Windows version: windows 7
* Libraries -> Override "msls31 native, builtin". For graphics I'm
* Graphics -> emulate a virtual desktop checked
* Graphics -> allow window manager to control the windows unchecked

I was able to install OK, and restore my previous quicken file with no problems.

The problem happens when I try to update my accounts (the little curly arrow icon on the account pane). This brings up a "register with Quicken" dialog, and it goes through some animations of registering. That dialog disapears and then the "update my accounts" icon changes to an animation, and then the program crashes. Usually it pops up a "quicken unexpectedly died" dialog saying "Error code 6912", but sometimes it just hangs.

I tried different windows versions, and there wasn't anything helpful in any of the quicken log files in /Application Data/Intuit/Logs

Has anyone been able to get the update working?

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:58 pm

ryepup wrote: Has anyone been able to get the update working?

At least one person has. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=25204

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:28 pm

I have not been able to get registration to work. I have simply bypassed this step using the trick in comments for the 2011 version (eliiminating the nag screen.) One step update works after that.

ryepup · Post by **ryepup** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:14 pm

I have simply bypassed this step using the trick in comments for the 2011 version (eliiminating the nag screen.)

Thanks! I found this on http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/11/29/solved ... g-on-linux:

There is a way to stop Quicken from nagging you with the registration screen without registering. Just hold down Shift and Ctrl, click on ‘Tools’ in the menu bar, then click on One Step Update. You’ll get a box saying Quicken will no longer prompt you for registration.

Now I don't get the error dialog, but the one-step update doesn't seem to actually update. Might be a problem with my bank at the moment, or a problem with my patience.

abarrow · Post by **abarrow** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:46 pm

I used the instructions from Quicken 11 and some of the comments from here, installed on a clean wineprefix. One of the issues I was finding was with crashes due to Quicken calling IE7 or IE8, which both seem pretty unstable. I found that I could uninstall IE after Quicken was installed, and whenever Quicken felt that it needed to call a browser for something, my Linux browser would open to the right page. Still looking to see what other impacts that might have on Quicken operation.

I've had a couple of crashes but nothing that I can successfully repeat. I have been successful in setting up and entire home financial account, with online updating and stock updates.

Mint 12
Wine 1.3.37

Graphics set to emulate virtual desktop with "Allow window manager to control desktop" checked OFF. Screen rez @104.

AstroRoid · Post by **AstroRoid** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:51 am

Same boat, forced to update my 2009....

I was successful installing Quicken Rental Property Manager 2012 using the 2011 Premier steps (the 4 winetricks installs and the override)

On wine-1.4 and Ubuntu 11.10. Appears to run nicely/smoothly and so far so good.. however I have encountered a glaring problem that really makes it unusable, which I cannot seem to resolve:

All pop-up windows, i.e. file password, input bill, account warnings, backup, etc etc appear BEHIND the main window.

I am able to type my password and press enter to get into the file, and when warning messages come up I can press escape after using (Alt+Tab to see what it is and selecting it) but other than that I can't fill out forms and use the mouse on the pop-ups. And I can't move the main window because it is locked by the pop-up.

I am unable to de-select the 'Allow the window manager to control the windows' option because when I do that I have no way of accessing the pop-up to Esc out (because it does not appear in Alt+Tab view). And 'Emulate a virtual desktop' didn't fix either.

Bottom line is program is unusable in its current state, and is really the only thing keeping me stuck to Windows.

Hopefully somebody here has some suggestions?

I am fairy new to linux, and BRAND spanking new to Wine.

Thanks!

tigerdog · Post by **tigerdog** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:00 pm

I *had* been successful. Biggest help was to install in 32-bit WINE prefix in XP mode and make sure I had gdi+ and dotnet20 installed before installing WINE. Window handling works if you run WINE with a virtual desktop. However, recently and without warning, WINE simply stops working during transaction downloads. The specific error is

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7bc4b1f0

I haven't been able to find any way around this.