Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ Quicken 2017 for Mac 4.4.1 Agen G. N. Schmitz Quicken Inc. has released version 4.4.1 of its [1]Quicken 2017 for Mac financial management app with a number of new features and enhancements. The update adds a basic auto-backup feature (the top most requested user feature addition) that backs up files to a designated location after quitting the app and stores up to five files at a time. The release also refines the behavior of the register status icons, adds a blue dot next to all accounts on the sidebar that have new transactions after updating connected accounts, merges dividend and buy transactions into a single reinvested dividend transaction (to match the behavior in Quicken Windows), adds the capability to Export or Copy the comparison or summary report to a spreadsheet, fixes a bug that caused some payee names to appear abridged or truncated, and resolves several crashes. Normally priced $74.99, Quicken 2017 for Mac is on sale for $44.99 through 3 January 2017. ($74.99 new from Quicken Web site and [2]Mac App Store, free update from Quicken 2017, [3]release notes, 10.10+) References 1. http://www.quicken.com/mac 2. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quicken-2017/id1161795460?mt=12&at=10l5PW 3. https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-2017-mac-release-notes .