Brief Hands-On Report --Intuit released Quicken 2006 R6 Updater with an Extensive List of Updates

Intuit's Quicken 2006 R6 Updater is available via "Check for Updates" or as a stand-alone file via this Mac Update Web page. The R6 Updater has a huge number of fixes, especially for an application released in 2005 when there is already a Quicken 2007 version available.

The fixes in Version 2006 R6 are:

• Quicken sometimes miscalculated security prices for downloaded investment transactions involving approximately 472,000 shares or more. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When entering transactions in the register, Quicken sometimes performed slowly on systems running Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when editing a payee name (while the split is displayed) after editing the category and amount for a split line.
  
• Stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when launching or during data file conversion on systems running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
  
• Stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when launching with certain internal files corrupted. The files in question are now repaired if necessary and Quicken launches as expected.
  
• When canceling a Quicken Bill Pay payment, the payment would be incorrectly marked as a sent payment in the register. Quicken now correctly marks the cancelled payment.
  
• When using Quicken Bill Pay, rules concerning postdated payments were sometimes evaluated incorrectly. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When downloading transactions the Accept All button would become inactive after using the Accept button. This issue has been resolved.
  
• After enabling an online account the Download Transactions window did not refresh properly. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Quicken sometimes quit unexpectedly when creating a Smart Payee after deleting an online- enabled account. This issue has been resolved.
  
• The security certificate used to ensure your online banking sessions are secure has been updated.
  
• When selecting a downloaded transaction in the Download Transactions window, Quicken sometimes failed to copy the transaction to the register section of the window. This issue has been resolved.
  
• In some cases investment transactions would reappear in the Download
• Transactions window after being accepted or deleted. This issue has been resolved.
  
• In some cases the split ratio for downloaded stock split transactions could be reversed (i.e. 1 for 2 instead of 2 for 1). This issue has been resolved.
  
• Quicken incorrectly displayed split transaction information for investment “Buy” and “Move Shares In” transactions under certain circumstances. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Quicken now prevents disabling online functionality for an investment account if there are unprocessed transactions in the Download Transactions window.
  
• When using the Scheduled Updates tab of the One Step Update window, clicking the weekday buttons rendered the buttons unreadable. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When running a scheduled update, Quicken sometimes created and copied a backup file to .Mac when the Back Up to .Mac feature was enabled. This has been corrected so the backup is no longer created in this situation.
  
• When using the Move Transactions window, some buttons overlapped register fields. This issue has been resolved.
  
• You can now paste into the Number field of checking registers.
  
• The File > Open Recent menu item did not display a submenu when there were no recent files to display. This issue has been resolved.
  
• The Help menu now includes a link to the Quicken for Mac user forums.
  
• Stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when deleting a transaction from the Calendar.
  
• The Add Note feature of the Calendar did not work properly for some customers. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When entering transactions from the Calendar, some buttons overlapped register fields. This issue has been resolved.
  
• You can now delete multiple transactions at the same time from within the Calendar.
  
• The Export Report to Excel functionality has been improved for better compatibility with Microsoft Excel.
  
• When exporting a QIF file, the custom export options for Securities and
• Security Prices were reversed. This issue has been resolved. Stability improvements were made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when saving a copy of the data file. This issue has been resolved.
  
• The “Margin Interest” investment transaction type did not work properly for some customers. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When displaying security detail graphs, a notation has been added to indicate when a stock split occurred.
  
• Tax rates used in the Tax Planner have been updated.
  
• Quicken has been updated to check with a new server for information about the availability of software updates.

Thankfully Intuit is still maintaining these previous versions of Quicken for Mac.

We downloaded the updater and applied it to our copies of Quicken 2006 without a problem. We have chosen not to update to Quicken 2007 because the added features are not worth the cost. [Bill Fox and Dana Baggett]