Exporting from Quicken

[Charles Day]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:27 PM, The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

> 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?
>

You'll find a variety of QIF examples attached to the QIF importer bugs in
Bugzilla. There is also a helpful but incomplete write-up on the QIF format
here:
http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/file-format.txt

Here's a sample QIF file for a bank account. There are two dining
transactions that reduce the balance of the account.

!Option:AutoSwitch
!Account
NMy Bank Account
TBank
^
!Type:Bank
D1/30' 8
T-180.68
CX
PRoadkill Buffet
MAte so much I puked!
LDining
^
D1/31' 8
T-180.68
CX
PRoadkill Buffet
MCan't believe I went back!
LDining
^

-Charles



> 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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