Not wanting to do either, I decided to pursue a different tact: Use MYOB AccountEdge 8 as my accounting program instead of QuickBooks. When approaching Intuit about the best way to resolve this type of problem, I’m usually given the option to either upgrade to the current release (QuickBooks 2007) or switch to the Windows version and run it on my Mac using a virtual machine application like Parallels. I obtained my licensed copy of QuickBooks Pro 6 over four years ago, and the developer (Intuit) no longer offers software updates for this application. After entering my day’s list of check and credit card transactions, I end up having to manually quit the program using the standard keyboard shortcut (Command-Q). In an earlier post, I commented that once QuickBooks Pro 6 has been started on a Mac running OS X 10.5, the QuickBooks menu bar will eventually stop responding to mouse clicks.
