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Background In AccountEdge 2010 and later (US) and 2009 and later for Canadian versions, you will be asked to register your software upon initial installation. To register your AccountEdge, you will need your Serial Number. If you just purchased and are new to AccountEdge, you will have received your Serial Number in an email message. Speakonia Voices Online. If you are upgrading from an older version, you will continue to use your current Serial Number. Frequently Asked Registration Questions Why do I need to register my software?
The registration process protects your software license against misuse while informing us of who the legal owner of the software is through a seamless notification process. I've Owned AccountEdge for Years - Why Does It Say My Trial Version Has Expired? Upon first installing AccountEdge we require registration. That means if you meet any of the following conditions, you will be asked to register the software: • You install AccountEdge on a new computer • You have computer work done (ie: you get a new harddrive or motherboard) that makes the software believe this is a new machine • You install a newer version of AccountEdge (ie: you had registered 2012 and purchased 2016 - now 2016 has to be registered) • You have that resets your Machine ID • You deactivated the software on your machine How do I register my AccountEdge?
In an, I commented that once QuickBooks Pro 6 has been started on a Mac running OS X 10.5, the QuickBooks menu bar will eventually stop responding to mouse clicks. After entering my day’s list of check and credit card transactions, I end up having to manually quit the program using the standard keyboard shortcut (Command-Q). I obtained my licensed copy of QuickBooks Pro 6 over four years ago, and the developer (Intuit) no longer offers software updates for this application. When approaching Intuit about the best way to resolve this type of problem, I’m usually given the option to either upgrade to the current release (QuickBooks 2007) or switch to the Windows version and run it on my Mac using a virtual machine application like Parallels. Not wanting to do either, I decided to pursue a different tact: Use MYOB AccountEdge 8 as my accounting program instead of QuickBooks. Unlike Intuit, MYOB provides the same feature set in its Mac and Windows applications.
During my switchover, I used MYOB’s conversion utilities to convert my QuickBooks data file to the new format. The conversion normally takes two steps: First, run the QuickBooks Conversion Assistant after. Second, open the file in AccountEdge 8 and allow the program to upgrade the file so it can be used by the application.
If you’re running OS X 10.5 and encounter an “Upgrade Assistant is unable to process the company file” error when opening the converted file in AccountEdge 8, manually upgrade the file using the Upgrade Assistant utility located in the MYOB AccountEdge 2008 directory. It will take a bit of an adjustment to become comfortable with using MYOB AccountEdge, but after a short while, I expect that I’ll be a much happier and more productive user. The QuickBooks Community Forum lists several cases where the conversion of PC data files to their Mac equivalent has been problematic for users. Restoring to MAC from Windows version Jul 23, 2006 03:12pm QB for windows to MAC Feb 06, 2007 04:38pm PC to MAC on QB Pro Acctg Aug 07, 2006 07:11pm In contrast, MYOB data files are cross-platform in that files created on a Windows PC can be opened by a Mac and vice versa. At a rule, both systems should be running compatible versions of MYOB software. If the two versions aren’t directly compatible, then the data file should be upgraded to the next higher version. To convert a PC version aof QuickBooks to a Mac version of MYOB AccountEdge, first convert the data file using the PC version of the QuickBooks Conversion Assistant, then open that file in the Mac version of AccountEdge.