downloading issue

[Colin Law]

On 22 September 2011 19:00, suk wah bernstein <sukwahbernstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> peter and colin. thanks so much for jumping in. appreciate it.
> let me run this by you all before i start doing anything. quicken data file
> is on quicken 2000 in powermac 7600. so, transfer data on zip disk

You have gone wrong already.  You have to use Quicken to generate the
qif file.  A couple of posts ago prl pointed the direction to go to do
this (File > Export).  Then take the qif file across to the mac for
import into gnucash.

Colin

> (i know,
> it's that ancient. that babe has been with me since 1996.) book a genius bar
> appt. take computer and zip disk and drive in. have them import quicken qif
> into macbook pro.
> or, is it possible that someone out there might be able to walk me through
> this quicken to qif  export/import thing?
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 September 2011 03:34, suk wah bernstein <sukwahbernstein at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > ...
>> > click on gnucash. menu bar opens. tip of day opens. i close it. select
>> > import. select qif. qif import window opens. click forward. select qif
>> > window opens. click 'all files' bottom right. click select. finder
>> > window
>> > opens. select quicken data file. go back to 'select qif' window.' click
>> > select. name of quicken data file appears in blank box next to 'select.'
>> > click 'forward'. blank browser window opens with the url part in black,
>> > part
>> > in grey.
>>
>> It is a long time since I switched from Quicken but at that time it
>> was necessary to export the data from Quicken as a qif file.  You
>> comment above suggests that you are trying to read the quicken data
>> file itself without first exporting it as qif.
>>
>> Colin
>
>



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