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bobsouer · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

Lou,

Thanks for that. I've been searching for an alternative to Quickbooks for a long time. Not that I don't like Quickbooks, but as you detailed in your earlier post, there are things about the way we get herded in to upgrades that I don't appreciate. I'm going to check this out for sure.
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louzucaro · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject:

I've been meaning to give it a go myself but simply haven't had the time to mess with it yet.
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Gregory Best · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject:

Thank Lou, I just downloaded it to try too. I have been using MS Money for a few years. Too bad.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

I've been TRYING to get Office accounting installed for days, but it's having a conflict with some phantom version of SQL server.

Meanwhile I've got this big pretty version of Quickbooks Premier, but I can't use it because all my records are in a trial version of Money (which expires in 3 days) and I can't convert Money files into Quickbooks without Office Accounting (which won't install) or Quicken (which I don't own and can't get a free trial of) and I can't really buy the full version of Money knowing that it won't be supported in the future.

(exhale)

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louzucaro · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:40 am Post subject:

Jeff, do you have VWD 2008 Express Edition installed? That could be where the SQL install came from. Of course, it could have come from just about any db-using a Hobo Tounge

I suppose, but I know that it comes with the aforementioned software (although, that said, it's never caused me any issues).

Also any trial / Beta software you have might have a squirrelly install of SQL / SQL Express, so that would be another place to look, if it turns out to be something that you can dump.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject:

I got it to install. It was choking on a previous install of MSXML 6. Some registry tweaks and I was able to install it.

Initial reaction: sloooow. Because it uses SQL, you'll need a fairly beefy computer to get any decent speed. It's also highly married to Office, so for invoices and stuff, you'll need Office templates.
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