QIF Import and accounts

[Derek Atkins]

Honestly, my answer would be "Start from scratch on January 1st".
Yeah, it wont give you your history, but you'll still be able to
work going forward.  But if you WANT to work on the QIF importer,
many people would be very happy!

-derek

Quoting Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>:

> My intention was actually to reduce the work.
> It seems that it's not so easy. There seems to be no perfect solution around.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 9:33:56 PM
> Subject: Re: QIF Import and accounts
>
> With multiple currencies???
> Umm, I'm afraid I dont have a good answer for you.
> Maybe write a PERL script that generates a gnucash data file?  ;)
> Or learn enough scheme to fix the current importer..
> Or finish the implementation of the new importer?
>
> Sorry,
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>:
>
>> So what should be my strategy to get my Excel data history (and
>> future data) into GNC?
>>
>> Try completely different account hierarchies for each currency?
>> Try little QIF files to train the importer?
>> Try little QFX files to train the importer?
>>
>> What is the most promissing way?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Georg
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>> To: Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, 18 December, 2007 6:48:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: QIF Import and accounts
>>
>> Georg Stapper <georgstapper at yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> If I remember correctly, OFX does not take care of categories. That
>>> is why I tried to use QIF. Or can I tell OFX files to consider
>>> account structures?
>>
>> Nope.  nor can OFX handle split transactions.
>>
>>> I tried already Big Red's QIF Fixer. There is also an a preogram
>>> called MT2OFX that can be used to convert all sorts of formats. But
>>> finally I would like to import my categories/accounts.
>>
>> Okay..
>>
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>> -derek
>>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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