Switching from Quicken to gnucash.

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:43:58PM +0200, Charles Stroom 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:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > 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.  How long do you have
> > to keep your history?  Is that a mandated thing or personal
> > preference?  I used to keep my history for years and years until I
> > figured out that it really doesn't do me any good to keep more than 24
> > months of history.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,

And I suppose you'd like to move the data to a file format that won't expire soon.

-- hendrik