Installing Quicken 98 Deluxe Update: a follow-up

Regarding the "controversy" (noted last time) as to whether Quicken 98 Deluxe Update (free to owners of Quicken v.1 - v. 7) installs out-of-date extensions (especially AppleScript) or not, the consensus appears to be that it does. However, Pat Ford notes that both views could be right: "The CD is confusing and in the rush to upgrade and not reading help files first, it is easy to completely reinstall Quicken, as I did and get the old extensions - instead of updating your old version, which does not install the extensions."

In any case,various work-arounds were offered, most of which apply to any installer problem of this sort:

"I have solved this problem by doing the following whenever I install any new software. 1. Install the software; 2. If the installer tells you that you have to restart the computer because it has put stuff in your system folder, don't let it restart the machine. Force quit the installer instead (Command-Option-Escape); 3. Then open Conflict Catcher. It will show you any duplicate extensions or control panels currently installed; 4. Use the option in Conflict Catcher to delete the older versions; 5. Then manually do the required restart." [Larry Lloyd]

A similar work-around. offered by Stephen Becker, is to use Conflict Catcher to create a minimal extension set and then run the Installer. After the installation is complete, reselect your standard extension set. "As CC resets the extensions in preparation for the next restart, it notifies you of any duplicate extensions and gives you the option of trashing/enabling each of these extensions, one at a time." You can use this to delete the older version of any duplicates reported.

Several readers suggested using the Finder's colored Labels to identify pre-existing extensions. Any changes can be spotted by their lack of this assigned color. Conflict Catcher 8's List by Date Installed would also likely be effective here. Just make sure you have back-ups of newer versions that may have been deleted. [Greg Pratt and others]

"I saw the old extensions and no custom install. So I just copied the Quicken 98 Deluxe folder from the CD to my Mac OS 8.6 hard drive. The first time I started the application it said the NetManageLib was missing. But it only asked once. Working just fine since." [Dan Mangialetto]

Part of the issue with AppleScript appears to be due to the fact that some versions of AppleScript have a TM symbol in their name (as has been discussed on MacFixIt before), allowing two versions to be present in the Extensions folder at the same time (one with and one without the TM symbol). Thus, after installing Quicken, you may find both versions in your System Folder. An older version of QuickTime appears to be installed only if a newer version is not present. Quicken may install an old version of the Sound control panel.