Quicken and outdated extensions: a follow-up

Last time, we noted that the new Quicken update CD installs an out-of-date version of AppleScript. Reader Frank Severa got bit by this glitch. He writes: "After installing Quicken Update I could no longer click and drag. Every time I tried I would get a Finder Bus Error and have to restart. After reading your posting, I checked and found that I had two AppleScript extensions installed: 1.3.4 and 1.1. I threw away 1.1 restarted and all has worked fine since."

It gets worse. Dennis Supanich writes: "The free Quicken 98 Deluxe update installs a load of outdated extensions, including AppleScript andvarious QuickTime items. And, as far as I can tell, there is no custom install option to prevent these from being installed." So have back ups of your extensions available, just in case you need to re-install any of them.

Update: Several users (Steve Ross, Fred Wagner and Ken Kashmarek) now counter these assertions, claiming that no older extensions were installed when they ran the Update. I have no explanation as yet for these conflicting reports.

Quicken 2000 Meanwhile, Bob Carr received the following letter from American Express:

"We are in the process of converting our system to Open Financial Exchange (OFX), a new industry standard designed to improve online communication between financial institutions and customers...In order to use our new OFX server you'll need Quicken 99. Older versions of Quicken do not support OFX, so you'll need to be using Quicken 99 when the transition to OFX is complete later this year.

P.S. Note to Macintosh users: Quicken 99 is not available for the Macintosh. Mac users will need to upgrade to Quicken 2000 when it becomes available later this year."