Migration from Quicken Home & Business

[William McDonald Buck]

I've been trying to migrate my Quicken environment since GnuCash 1.5, but only with 1.8 has the import been robust enough that I get a result I can work with. 
My primary Quicken data file is 13.6MB and the QIF file for the primary import was 3.6MB. I don't know what the typical Quicken/GNUcash user has, but I've been doing everything in Quicken since about '91 so my guess is this is a pretty good size test of the import. I stll had a lot of manual fixup to do, but with 1.8 it was finally possible to really do it, and I got to the point where balances match on all the accounts. 
I have a couple of issues to report. 
One is that I'm using Intuit's Quicken Home & Business product, and that seems to cause some problems. In particular there are some additional accounts it creates which cause the import to choke. For example, there is an account created automatically called "*Sales Tax*" and that seems to cause some problems. I think -- based on looking at debugging output -- that GnuCash must be using some internal regexp code which doesn't like the * but could easily be wrong. Another thing, Q H&B has an account type called "Invoice", which GnuCash doesn't like. 
By lurking on the list I was able to learn how to start up GnuCash under gdb so I could figure out what was going wrong, and then I manually massaged the QIF file till I could get GnuCash to swallow it without choking. 
In addition to some GnuCash problems with the goofy data, there appeared to me also to be some Quicken export problems too. In some places after Quicken put in some of these unusualy record types (e.g. account type Invoice) it would get stuck and the next record would have some unusual/incorect account type. I made some corrections there also. 

Are you aware of any of this? If it is important I could try to narrow down the QIF file that fails and get a simple test case, unless this is already a solved problem.  

 
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