Exporting from Quicken

[The Wassermans]

I see . . . . .

Tom it would assist me greatly if you could send me an extract of a bank 
qif.  Just a small extract (one transaction will do) so that I can see 
the structure Quicken uses in their qif's.  Would you mind?

Also, how do you find the share price downloads work in GC?

- Dave W

Thomas Peterson wrote:
> I'm a tightwad so I haven't upgraded for years therefore I have 
> Quicken 2005 and it supports exporting as QIF.  My machine is rather 
> dated as well (about 5 years old and I did not buy the fastest 
> components when I built it) so a faster processor and hard drive would 
> probably make things fine.  Others with a large number of transactions 
> should chime in about their experience.
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, The Wassermans 
> <dwass at optusnet.com.au <mailto:dwass at optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>
>     I am using Quicken 2008.  It does not export in QIF format.  So
>     what I must do is to create a CSV dump and convert it to QIF using
>     a spreadsheet macro I was put onto.
>
>     Is that what you did or do you have an easier path?
>
>     I am using the Windows version of GnuCash 2.2.3 but I intend to
>     switch to Ubuntu.  Do you think start-ups and processing is likely
>     to be faster?
>
>     - Dave W
>
>     Thomas Peterson wrote:
>>     Dave, I initially just exported everything from Quicken and then
>>     imported the QIF file but since I had close to 20 years of data
>>     the start up time after the import was unacceptable to me so I
>>     just decided to start fresh as of January 1st and I only imported
>>     my investment accounts.  I just used the New File druid and
>>     selected the categories that were appropriate. I have since added
>>     several other accounts that I had in Quicken.
>>
>>     - Tom
>>
>>
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