The MS Remote Desktop Connection enables access to local disk drives from the remote computer. There are some good youtube videos showing how to setup a vm on GCP in a few minutes. You need to have a Google account, gmail for instance. Linux has some RDP implementations, as well. Access is by running MS Remote Desktop Connection on a local pc or mac. We probably only need to access Quicken for an hour or two per day, so cheap. The configuration I chose costs $0.18/hour, but that rate will probably increase as I add snapshots for backup. You pay for uptime and storage after using up the initial $300 free credit. I created a Windows Server vm on GCP, installed Quicken and a few other apps, and then copied the 8 GB QDF file over to it. Our current solution is to run Quicken on a virtual machine in the Google Cloud Platform. We tried various combinations of running it and copying it to our desktop computers that weren't very satisfactory. We also would like to be able to keep Quicken up-to-date while travelling. Our use case is that both my wife and I need to have access to Quicken since we now share budget and investing duties. Second is that running a report for estimated cap gains will crash the tool. 1 is that it won't let me enter a calendar transaction for the future for automatic entry unless I first set it to recurring, then set to automatic entry, then turn off recurring. This version of Quicken has two annoying bugs not not annoying enough to move to anything newer.

I do upload security prices via CSV (from Google xls) and also upload credit card/investment transactions via QIF (QFX from bank/brokerage, then convert to QIF). I have Deluxe 2016 on my Mac and don't use any automated download functions of Quicken. To answer your question, I use CVS imports for pricing of securities, but not for transactions. I like the ROI features for investments that you can't get in the deluxe versions.

I use quicken premier 2016 still, and even migrated it to a new computer. I really only want it to run some basic analysis on spending trends across 5 or 6 different financial institutions. Does anyone have 2017 and earlier locally stored on your machine? Can you upload bulk transactions via CSV/excel files? I've heard for items out of support window, you can no longer log in (which would be problematic).īut if the functionality still works, I'd rather get an older version and work 100% offline and not have to pay a recurring subscription rate.

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