I have never had any trouble. (There is an irritating delay of a few seconds where Windows 7 says it cant mount a shared drive.
Running Quickbooks For Windows On A Mac I GotSo Im back to my original question - does anyone have experience with running Quickbooks and Quicken in Windows on a Mac I got Crossover in a recent Macheist sale but Im not sure that will work to install either of them.I had Parallels or the other years ago, on my first iBook but it was so long ago Im not sure its upgradeable.
With any VM software, instead of keeping files inside the guest OS volume, I recommend keeping your files on the Mac filesystem and use the VM softwares ability to share a folder between guest and host. If a particular Windows application doesnt work well with files within such a shared folder, use something to regularly copy the files from within the guest to the host (copy be a Windows script that copies files, could be something like Dropbox or Google Backup Sync running on Windows). Doing a Mac to Mac folder share is problematic (they admit its experimental at the moment). Its slow as molasses, hard drive checks out fine and I am trying to check for viruses now. Even with the subscription mode now with PDM, It is still less expensive of time and dollars than any physical Wintel machine. The real bonus is that my Quicken backup files are in my macOS home directory and are backed up hourly by Time Machine. The Virtual Windows machine itself is backed up by my CCC backup of my boot drive and can be instantly restored by Finder copy. I only note any that any Windows OS installation must be properly licensed. Works fine 99.9999 of the time. Which matches or beats real Win.) Currently on Win10. That (the Mac filefolder that pretends to be the D: drive) is what we back up on the Mac side every day. Before we moved everything to SSD I also created an S: (Swap) drive and put the page files there. That way they didnt bloat the Mac filefoder setup that was the boot system. Running Quickbooks For Windows On A Windows 10 Does NotThe Windows 7 download requires a valid product key but Windows 10 does not. How to Get Windows 10 for Free (or Under 30) covers license options. I was interested to learn that you dont give up much by running Windows 10 without ever activating it. But support for Windows 7 is ending next year and the Windows 10 settings can be changed. While Im not a fan of 10, at least itll still be getting security updates this time next year. And with Parallels I can launch Windows apps directly from Spotlight or Alfred, bypassing the Start Menu altogether, and use them alongside my Mac apps. I keep my Quicken file on a shared drive (that is, on my Mac system drive, which is backed up by TimeMachine, and almost every day by Carbon Copy Cloner to a bootable clone drive. I have never had any trouble. There is an irritating delay of a few seconds where Windows 7 says it cant mount a shared drive.
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