Mail, Quicken(WTF!), iTunes

I configured Mail so I can start getting my main email from a few accounts. That looked liked it worked pretty well. Mail started coming in and I can send too. I sent an email to a buddy of mine. Let's see if knucklehead responds.

I then backed up my Quicken 2004 Basic data on my PC to a USB flash keydrive. I then fired up the included Quicken 2005 on my iMac expecting to be able to import.

It was a no go!

I found this on Quicken's main support site:
Quicken data files are not meant to be transferred between Quicken for Microsoft Windows and Quicken for Mac. Currently, there is not an available converter tool.

WTF! Do I have to start from scratch?! I hope the hell not. What a pain. I usually do home finance types of things on Tuesdays. I'll give this another look tomorrow. If needed, I guess I'll have to create a new file on the Mac. I won't be able to compare years and next tax season could be a pain.

After talking to a co-worker(let's call him Darth Vader) about my iTunes issue, he suggested a change in the settings. I think I found the setting DV was talking about and I'm hoping that iTunes won't make a local copy of music that I have out on a network drive. I'll have to play with this.

I loaded more video of my son's pre-school graduation to make a DVD. This will need more attention too. I tried to add a simple title and it kept bouncing out. When I hit play after adding a bunch of clips it kept stopping after play one clip. I've been a Pinnacle Studio user for years and I'll just need to figure out iMovie and iDVD.