Flexible Retirement Planner Support Forum

Thanks for this feedback.

I can't make any promises but it doesn't sound like too tough of a change. I'll put it on the list of requested changes and may get to it, especially if I have to dig into that code again.

The best way to try to model a more constant withdrawal is to either set expenses based on trial and error or activate the goal seek feature in settings. With goal-seek, you can set the probability of success to your target value and the planner will try to find the maximum withdrawal amount that st...

First, the latest standalone version (04-03-02) let's you adjust the RMD start age. If you have the latest version, you should see that option in settings. The download page is here: https://www.flexibleretirementplanner.com/wp/download/ The spending adjustment multiplier controls how fast "percent ...

I'm not sure if this could be the problem, but for Catalina, you can enable file system access for Java by going to General Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy From there, add add permission for the program "Java" to access to the folder where you store your frp files. I have heard from other ...

Great. thanks for reporting it and testing the fix. - Jim

This one is likely to be either an OS issue or a Java issue since file opening and reading isn't part of the FRP code. I did some quick googling and I did find some users reporting problems with files/folder not appearing in finder on Catalina, but it's tough to say if it's related: https://discussi...

Thanks for confirming. If you redo the download you'll get a new version (04-03-02) that should run on 32bit windows machines.

https://www.flexibleretirementplanner.com/wp/download/

Thanks for posting about this. I couldn't reproduce the problem on my end despite trying on 6 different windows machines, but you got me digging a little and I might have found the problem. The program contains an embedded Java runtime (jre) as part of the installer and it looks like I inadvertently...

Does the simulator model based on actual date or default to Jan 1 start for the year? I update my account balances regularly and resimulate. Would like to know if I update and run in June for instance, the result is modeling based on the 6 months remaining vs. 12 for the year I'm in. The simulation...

FYI, there's a new release of FRP out (v4.03.01) and it allows you to export the additional inputs entries.

Right-click anywhere on either table to bring up the export menu.