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Quicken Mac just mounts my document folder directly so it can access the file.

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I keep my actual Quicken file on my Mac OS X Lion machine, so it’s backed up with Time Machine, etc.

Once connected on screen sharing, I configured the display preferences of the mac to 1650×1080, giving me a large window to run Quicken. Anytime I want to run Quicken 2007, I just use screen sharing from Lion to connect to “Quicken-Mac.local”, and I’m up and running. I call the machine “Quicken Mac”, and it lives on my network. It’s exactly the same size, so it now just looks like I have a fatter base station. I then plugged it in to just power & gigabit ethernet, hiding it cleverly under my Apple Airport Extreme Base Station.I also configured it to auto-reboot if there is a power outage or crash. I configured the machine to support file sharing and screen sharing, turned off the 802.11 network, turned off bluetooth, and to wake from sleep from Ethernet.I installed Quicken 2007, and applied the R2 & R3 updates.

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I did a clean install of Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6, and then applied all updates to get to a clean 10.6.8.

(It’s not a bad as it sounds – I upgraded her to a new iMac in the process.)

I commandeered a 2007-era Mac Mini from my grandmother.

I’m happy to report that you can, in fact, now run a Mac Mini headless. It used to be that if you tried to boot a Mac without a display plugged in, it would stop in the middle of the boot process. In the end, I gave up on this path.įor the longest time, you couldn’t actually run a Mac as a headless server. Worse, VM performance is surprisingly bad for a Mac running on top of a Mac. Added to the $75.00 for VMware Fusion, and all of a sudden you have a very expensive solution. You can virtualize Snow Leopard Server, but if you try to buy a used copy on eBay, it’s still almost $200.00. (Personally, I believe VMware should have made this check easy to disable, so that expert users could “take the licensing risk” while not offending Apple. I was hoping that VMware Fusion 4.0 would remove this limitation, since Apple now allows virtualization of Mac OS X 10.7, but apparently they are still enforcing the ban on virtualizing Snow Leopard. While you can hack some of the configuration files within the virtual image package to “trick” the machine into loading Mac OS X 10.6, it ends up resetting almost every time you quit the virtual machine. Unfortunately, I found that none of them were stable over time.

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There are quite a few blog posts and discussion boards on the web that explain how to hack VMware Fusion to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. (BTW If you read the comments on that first blog post, you’ll see I’m not alone.)įailure: Snow Leopard on VMware Fusion 4.0 I finally come up with one that works incredibly well for me, so I thought I’d share it here for the small number of people out there who can’t imagine life without Quicken for Mac.

A few weeks ago, I made the leap to Lion, and experimented with a number of different solutions on how to successfully run Quicken 2007. Unfortunately, that solution didn’t actually work for me. In July I wrote a blog post about a proposed solution for running Quicken 2007 with Mac OS X Lion (10.7).