Switching from Quicken to gnucash.

[Jim Muchow]

On 8/9/07, Charles Stroom <charles at stremen.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:50:23 -0500
> "Eric Ladner" <eric.ladner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/07, Charles Stroom <charles at stremen.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been using several versions of Quicken in succession over the
> > > last 12 years and from time to time I have tried to convert to
> > > gnucash without much success so far.  The last version I tried was
> > > gnucash 2.2. I do not want to lose my financial history, so all
> > > quicken accounts have to be imported.
> >
> > History is great, but if you really want to do it right, you should
> > probably start  from scratch in GnuCash.  Keep Quicken around with the
> > old accounts until it's not relevant any more.
>
> Well, it's personal, but I find historical data useful for all kind of
> other purposes as well, like where have I been on holidays and what did
> I pay for this useless item then, etc.  Actually, with so many years I
> start to find this data more and more useful and it is simple just to
> keep it.  Less in my memory, more in Quicken so to say.  I have been
> carrying over quicken from W95 to W2K to vmware and now wine and it
> still works, but I am not sure when that will end.  Ususally I have to
> perform some tricks in the wine configuration, before it works.

I think you may be disappointed. In my case, my irritation with Intuit
(the makers of Quicken) rose to the point that any conversion issues were
less irritating.

When I converted to Gnucash 1.8 a couple of years ago, I tried to use the
QIF porting schemes. I was disappointed with the results. I have
transactions going back to the mid-90s and even a couple from the early
70s). In the end, I locked myself in the house for a weekend and manually
tranferred each transaction I needed/wanted. There's a "single entry"
transaction type (I can't remember the name) for import situations like this.