Format of files for import.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Paddy Walker <yarelea at paston.co.uk> writes:

> I have for a number of years kept my business accounts on QuickBooks run
> under vmware. I wish to try Gnucash and if successful dispense with the
> virtual machine. Currently I am using Ubunti 8.04 and QuickBooks 2006.
> 	I have been working my way through the new user tutorial. Under the
> section dealing with importing files from other programs, it mentions
> the capability to import files from QuickBooks. I am not aware of any
> facility within QuickBooks for saving data in *.qif format. There is a
> facility for exporting lists in *.iif format. What formats can be
> imported into Gnucash ? Is it possible for example to imort a *.qbb
> file ?

GnuCash can import QIF and OFX.
There are ways to get QB data into QIF format, but it might
involve going from QB to CSV to QIF.

GnuCash cannot import QBW or IIF, as those formats are not
published and nobody has reverse-engineered them.

> Paddy.

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-derek

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