Upgrade Paths

Grumble. I had hoped that getting a mac would make everything easier.

I want an accounting program for Mac that will download transactions from my Canadian bank. I have accounts for my small-business and personal accounts going back to 1997, in Quicken format.

Options:

• Buy Quicken Home and Business for US, Windows version, under an emulator such as Parallels. I've not investigated this thoroughly; I've gone this route with Quicken and Linux and it wasn't much fun.
  
  
• There is no current Quicken for Mac, Canada Version. There is for last year's version (2006, I suppose like cars), but that stopped being sold three weeks ago. My understanding is that stores don't carry it. Perhaps I could find it somewhere. I'm not inclined to, though, since it's been discontinued.
  
  
• Buy Quicken for Mac, US version. Theoretically, there is some Canada support. But not enough that Quicken's list of supported banks includes any in Canada. Also, support for importing from an old version of Windows Quicken is terrible. Also, I understand that new versions of Quicken ('06 on) won't import .QIF files, so there is no migration path back to Quicken if you migrate away. I do not want to support that kind of non-support.
  
  
• Flee the annoyance that is Intuit software and buy moneydance. It supports import from .QIF, it's written in Java and supports win/mac/linux. It doesn't support Canadian institutions either. Possibly, I could import QIF files. For that matter, I could write a plugin myself, since it's got a Python interpreter.
  
  
• Stop the race, get off, and balance my checkbook on paper. Hm. Looking more appealing, at least at the moment.
  
  

Grr.

[edit, oct. 15, 2006: added tag for mydreamapp, since that's where this discussion took me.]