I just purchased the new Quicken Essentials for mac to run on my MSI Wind Macbook Nano only to find out that the icon is marked with an strikeout.

When you double click the icon your told
“You cannot use this version of the application Quicken Essentials.app with this version of Mac OS X.

The Quicken Essentials requirements say Leopard or Snow Leopard. So is it possible Intuit has actually hard coded “Atom=False” to prevent Atom users from running the app?

FIX

I’ve found the issue and the fix.The minimum requirements are 10.5.8 and I’m running to 10.5.7.  So here’s the fix:

1. Right click Quicken Essentials.app
2. Click “Show Package Contents”
3. Open the “Contents” folder
4. Open the info.plist
5. Look for “Minimum system version”
6. It will have a value of “10.5.8″.  Change that to “10.5.7″.

That’s it.  The icon still has the slash across it, but it opens and works fine on my 10.5.7 Macbook Wind.  You could probably change it to 1o.5.6 or whatever, but I havn’t tested that.

Quicken Essentials on a Macbook Nano originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on March 9, 2010.