Giving up on Gnucash

[Adrian Simmons]

Rod Engelsman wrote:
> I'm using it for personal finance rather than business books, so a lot 
> of what I'm looking for in that kind of program simply isn't in Gnucash,
Erm...Gnucash *is* primarily a personal finance program. Ok, it uses 
double-entry book-keeping which is perhaps more typically found in 
business finance software than personal, but the business specific 
features of Gnucash are few.

> while it has a lot of stuff I have no use for.
Can you give some examples?

> that still doesn't mean that I have to like the product.
This is very true :)
But you need to remember Gnucash, like much OSS, is built on volunteer 
effort - complaints have the power to hurt feelings if nothing else, and 
the don't actually help push the project forward.

> I'm a lot more locked into 
> this than I was into MSMoney.
No you're not. Gnucash stores its data in text-based XML, it's all 
there, you can read it with a text editor, manipulate it with a text 
editor. Ok, so it may be *harder* for you as a non technical user to get 
the data into another program - but you are not locked in.

> So how do I 
> get my data back out of this thing in a useful form?
Just came across this, it might be useful...
http://gnucashtoqif.sourceforge.net/
and download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucashtoqif/

I've no idea whether or how it works.

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