So I setup the mortgage from scratch again and tried to enter the next payment due as January 1 which it did not allow because it was in the past. I tried to setup the mortgage with a special payee that would automatically adjust the principle/interest per payment but it didn't work. Quicken entered these as straight principle payments and didn't calculate any interest. Then went to my bank account and entered in transaction to pay the mortgage for January and February. I entered the mortgage with the Janubalance. During my cleaning of duplicates I failed to notice this and ended up deleting transactions that were transfers and messed up the account on the other side. Later when I imported the other account it wouldn't match the transactions and hence I ended up with duplicates. Quicken would detect this in one account and make it a transfer to the relevant account. After I realized it was because transactions from one account often translated to a transfer to another account. At first I didn't know why and just deleted the duplicates. Importing transactions created duplicates. Screen render noticeably slower and there is lag clicking between accounts. First thing I noticed is that Quicken is so much slower than Money. Relatively painless as I am an experienced Microsoft Money user. I created all relevant accounts in Microsoft Money first and imported all my transactions.

For some reason I really wanted to like Quicken which started this experiment. I wanted to start tracking my finances more closely so decided to start with 2017. In the past I have used Microsoft Money (15-20 years worth of data), although I haven't used anything to track my finances for a few years. I spent the last week entering in all my information from Januonwards in both Quicken and Microsoft Money Sunset.

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