Moneydance & the 100 Transaction Limit
hello.. Using Moneydance off the 8.0 cd's. I may have screwed up by updating the thing, now it won't let me enter any more transactions. Or perhaps it doesn't make any difference that I upgraded..either way..do I really have to buy a license to continue ? Thank you for your time. Lee
Yes, it's a demo. No matter if you download it from the Moneydance site or use the pkg on the SuSE CD's. It's going to stop working after 100 transactions. I bought it in fall of 2k and I've been using it ever since. It has a setting to check for updates and since I bought v2.0 I've been getting updates online with out shelling out any more then the original $25. :) I'm on v3.2 BTW...I really like it. * lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021021 20:08]: ->hello.. -> ->Using Moneydance off the 8.0 cd's. I may have screwed up by updating the ->thing, now it won't let me enter any more transactions. Or perhaps it doesn't ->make any difference that I upgraded..either way..do I really have to buy a ->license to continue ? -> ->Thank you for your time. -> ->Lee -> ->-- ->Check the headers for your unsubscription address ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com ->Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -> -> -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
On 10/22/2002 12:45 PM, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Yes, it's a demo. No matter if you download it from the Moneydance site or use the pkg on the SuSE CD's. It's going to stop working after 100 transactions. I bought it in fall of 2k and I've been using it ever since. It has a setting to check for updates and since I bought v2.0 I've been getting updates online with out shelling out any more then the original $25. :)
It is now up to $39, but when I did the same as Lee (it's been a while now), I decided to shell it out, I had too much data to quit by then. ;-)
I'm on v3.2 BTW...I really like it.
Same here.
* lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021021 20:08]: ->Using Moneydance off the 8.0 cd's. I may have screwed up by updating the ->thing, now it won't let me enter any more transactions. Or perhaps it doesn't ->make any difference that I upgraded..either way..do I really have to buy a ->license to continue ?
I'm not sure if the one on the CD is a demo or not, but I did the same thing as you. I ended up just paying for it. It is a rather good, stable app. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace God, I am what I am.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure Moneydance I'm $39 better than GNU Cash. I've used both of course. Why do you like MoneyDance better than GNU Cash ? Perhaps there are some features in there I'm not aware of yet ? Lee On Tuesday 22 October 2002 02:30, Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/22/2002 12:45 PM, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Yes, it's a demo. No matter if you download it from the Moneydance site or use the pkg on the SuSE CD's. It's going to stop working after 100 transactions. I bought it in fall of 2k and I've been using it ever since. It has a setting to check for updates and since I bought v2.0 I've been getting updates online with out shelling out any more then the original $25. :)
It is now up to $39, but when I did the same as Lee (it's been a while now), I decided to shell it out, I had too much data to quit by then. ;-)
I'm on v3.2 BTW...I really like it.
Same here.
* lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021021 20:08]: ->Using Moneydance off the 8.0 cd's. I may have screwed up by updating the ->thing, now it won't let me enter any more transactions. Or perhaps it doesn't ->make any difference that I upgraded..either way..do I really have to buy a ->license to continue ?
I'm not sure if the one on the CD is a demo or not, but I did the same thing as you. I ended up just paying for it. It is a rather good, stable app.
* lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021022 18:40]: ->Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure Moneydance I'm ->$39 better than GNU Cash. I've used both of course. Why do you like ->MoneyDance better than GNU Cash ? Perhaps there are some features in there ->I'm not aware of yet ? What I like about it is that it's a Java program and pretty much runs on any platform. So if I decide to get a OSX box it will work or a FreeBSD box..etc..etc. I don't know much about GNUCash. Lasttime I messed with it was so messed up that the debts were in the credits column and the credits showed up in the debts column. Moneydance worked out of the "box" for me and does a pretty good job. I'm not opposed to paying a reasonable price for good software and it works for me. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 04:32, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021022 18:40]: ->Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure Moneydance I'm ->$39 better than GNU Cash. I've used both of course. Why do you like ->MoneyDance better than GNU Cash ? Perhaps there are some features in there ->I'm not aware of yet ?
What I like about it is that it's a Java program and pretty much runs on any platform. So if I decide to get a OSX box it will work or a FreeBSD box..etc..etc. I don't know much about GNUCash. Lasttime I messed with it was so messed up that the debts were in the credits column and the credits showed up in the debts column. Moneydance worked out of the "box" for me and does a pretty good job. I'm not opposed to paying a reasonable price for good software and it works for me. :)
I second it for the "worked out of the box" comment. I also use Moneydance - bought a license back when it was still $25. I looked at GnuCash and a few other packages. I found most were either too eloborate, too expensive, or too unripe (needed more development time) to use. All I was looking for was a simple package that I could use to keep track of my bank account, loans and credit cards. Moneydance fit nicely... I was even able to import my MSMoney data without any problems (as long as I used the Quicken format). I haven't looked at GNUCash since then... maybe it's better now, but I had the same experience Ben had with it messing up debit and credit data... that was quite a long time ago though. C.
On Tue October 22 2002 11:32 pm, Clayton Cornell wrote:
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 04:32, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* lee (lnx@alltel.net) [021022 18:40]: ->Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure Moneydance I'm ->$39 better than GNU Cash. I've used both of course. Why do you like ->MoneyDance better than GNU Cash ? Perhaps there are some features in there ->I'm not aware of yet ?
What I like about it is that it's a Java program and pretty much runs on any platform. So if I decide to get a OSX box it will work or a FreeBSD box..etc..etc. I don't know much about GNUCash. Lasttime I messed with it was so messed up that the debts were in the credits column and the credits showed up in the debts column. Moneydance worked out of the "box" for me and does a pretty good job. I'm not opposed to paying a reasonable price for good software and it works for me. :)
I second it for the "worked out of the box" comment. I also use Moneydance - bought a license back when it was still $25.
I looked at GnuCash and a few other packages. I found most were either too eloborate, too expensive, or too unripe (needed more development time) to use. All I was looking for was a simple package that I could use to keep track of my bank account, loans and credit cards. Moneydance fit nicely... I was even able to import my MSMoney data without any problems (as long as I used the Quicken format).
I haven't looked at GNUCash since then... maybe it's better now, but I had the same experience Ben had with it messing up debit and credit data... that was quite a long time ago though.
Are they still developing/support MoneyDance? The last time I checked it looked like the company that owned it was going or gone under. Has someone revived it? --- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:27, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
Are they still developing/support MoneyDance? The last time I checked it looked like the company that owned it was going or gone under. Has someone revived it?
Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. Moneydance was developed by Reilly Technologies, and Appgen bought the marketing and distribution rights - from what I can tell, this happened in 2001. http://www.moneydance.com/news.shtml I took a look through the Moneydance mailing list archives. Appgen claims to be supporting the product, but the support seems to be you get the product as is, and can refer to the mailing list for any help. The development and support for Moneydance seems to have died around April of this year. This is what appears to be the official announcement from Appgen: http://www.moneydance.com/pipermail/moneydance-info/2002-April/002609.html This said... I think I would change my reccomendation for buying a license. Moneydance works, and works very well. Just because Appgen is no longer supporting the software does not mean it will suddenly stop working on my machine. But... in light of the fact that they cannot support the product anymore, it may not be the best decision to start using it as a new user. There are no guarantees that the product will be updated and rebuilt when new versions of Java are released, and it may or may not work at that point. I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start evaluating other choices. C.
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]: ->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. -> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start ->evaluating other choices. I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he announces. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:11, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]:
->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. -> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start ->evaluating other choices.
I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he announces. :)
Are there any folks out there using Kapital? If so I would like to hear impressions of the software and if it is worth getting. -- Johnathan Bailes BAE Systems ESI "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn ---
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:11, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]:
->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. -> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start ->evaluating other choices.
I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he announces. :)
Are there any folks out there using Kapital?
If so I would like to hear impressions of the software and if it is worth getting. Hi: I have been testing Kapital on SuSE since the product was announced about almost two years ago. It has been a slow development cycle. SuSE support for
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 October 2002 09:26, Johnathan Bailes wrote: the latest versions have been somewhat slow to happen. Currently Kapital will not run on SuSE 8.1, and they are waiting for SuSE to send them 8.1, before they update their programs. For me the program has most of the features of Moneydance. The only downside is that Kapital does not have a true investement/stock account like Moneydance, and Kapital will not import a Moneydance QIF file, so will have to start over manually, also Kapital does not have a working export routine yet. I am hopefully this will be corrected before February 2003 when they plan their version 1.1 release. It is the most promising of all the accounting programs now. Also the KDE Kmymoney2 accounting program will support importation of the Moneydance XML output file in their version 0.8. They will also have most of the Moneydance features by then also. They are currently programing version 0.6. For more info please visit their site at http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps somewhat. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 26 days 2 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9twHn8irP9FWaA+cRAhVqAJ4lNdfIKPy0iv9l9MfizOwbN4LkPwCcDC82 CZLz4eSFKH8QnqScG4C2No8= =Ce06 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 18:11, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]:
->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. -> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start ->evaluating other choices.
I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he announces. :)
Well, that is interesting. The good part about it is it would take me much longer than two weeks to find another package ;-) I work slowly at these things... especially when Moneydance works so well right now. So... 2 weeks... I can deal with that. I hope it's good news, that the project will be restarted - Moneydance is a nice product. C.
On Wed October 23 2002 11:11 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]:
->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of digging. -> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start ->evaluating other choices.
I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he announces. :)
What website was he talking about updating? I have waited now for more that they alloted 2 weeks, anxious to hear that this will be supported again, but the www.moneydance.com website is unchanged. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
* Howard Coles Jr. (hcoles@subdimension.com) [021115 22:31]: ->On Wed October 23 2002 11:11 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> * Clayton Cornell (c.cornell@chello.nl) [021023 08:20]: ->> ->> ->Interesting, I hadn't heard that... this prompted me to do a bit of ->> digging. -> ->> ->I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to ->> start ->evaluating other choices. ->> ->> I did some digging as well. In fact I emailed Sean Reilly lastnight when ->> this thread started. As he's done in the past ..he promptly returned the ->> mail. He said he couldn't announce much right now, but in 2 weeks he's ->> updating the website and will make a big announcement. It was a positive ->> sounding email. If he announces that it's dead, then I may just look at ->> Kapital and GNUcash. I would hold out for a bit to see what he ->> announces. :) -> ->What website was he talking about updating? I have waited now for more that ->they alloted 2 weeks, anxious to hear that this will be supported again, but ->the www.moneydance.com website is unchanged. Well, since I've been so busy and 3.2 still works so well for what I use it for...I just hadn't thought about it. I still have his email. I guess tomorrow when I'm more awake I'll shoot off an email to him. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
This said... I think I would change my reccomendation for buying a license. Moneydance works, and works very well. Just because Appgen is no longer supporting the software does not mean it will suddenly stop working on my machine. But... in light of the fact that they cannot support the product anymore, it may not be the best decision to start using it as a new user. There are no guarantees that the product will be updated and rebuilt when new versions of Java are released, and it may or may not work at that point.
I will continue using it for now... but in the mean time I am going to start evaluating other choices.
C.
Thank you for the update,as well as your honesty C. Much appreciated. Lee
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