Migrate to QuickBooks

[Charles Day]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:02 AM, The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

>  Thank you Charles and others.
>
> Yes Derek's advice was spot on and yes, the GC importer did a good job of
> allocating new accounts for me.
>
> In my minds eye I thought one would have to have accounts set up to
> receive the data and I was fixed on that logic.  I have wasted hours and
> hours trying to prepare the ground that I incorrectly thought was necessary.
> Such is life.
>
> Yes I was attempting to see what an exported set  GC chart of accounts
> would look life in QIF form.  I thought that would help me construct a qif
> from Quicken.
> Yes the goal is to transfer all quicken data into GnuCash.
>
> So far I have imported 6 years of credit card transactions successfully(
> About 4000 entries!).  One by one I am about to do the same for all my other
> accounts and then, my share portfolio.  It's going to be a big file.
>

I hope all the importing has gone well so far. But if you are not currently
using 2.2.4, please upgrade immediately before doing any more QIF imports,
as many bugs have been fixed. If you are already using 2.2.4 and are going
to be using any memo mapping in the QIF import druid (other than to the
default "Unspecified" account), make sure that you get the fix for bug
520606 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520606> by replacing your
existing version of qif-to-gnc.scm with this
one<http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm?rev=17010&format=txt>
.

And of course, if you find anything wrong with the GnuCash QIF importer,
post it here and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers,
Charles

I have a couple of questions, if I may:
>
> 1.  Will I be able to seamlessly transfer  all of this from 2.2.4  to
> Linux?
> 2.  Does GC run better in Linux than Windows version?
>
> Dave W
>
>
> Charles Day wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>  On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>
>  So....  Don't worry about you CoA.  Get your transactions into
> Gnucash first, and then you can fix the hierarchy if you need to.
>
>
>  I agree with Derek. The GnuCash QIF importer won't create accounts unless
> they are actually used by transactions in the QIF. In other words, a QIF
> file consisting solely of a chart of accounts will be ignored.
>
> When you begin importing the QIF files that actually contain transactions,
> the accounts will be created as you go along.
>
> Regarding the QIF content that you posted above, I'm confused as to why we
> are talking about gnucashtoqif and about exporting a chart of accounts from
> GnuCash. Were you just attempting to see what an exported chart of accounts
> should look like in QIF format? Just to eliminate any confusion, the goal is
> to have all data eventually going FROM Quickbooks TO GnuCash, correct?
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>
> Feel free to experiment and run the import several times, save in different
>
>
>  places, until you get the import parameters right.
>
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