Exporting from Quicken

[Thomas Peterson]

With respect to share prices, it took me the better part of an afternoon to
get Finance::Quote installed and working (along with the necessary
supporting packages) but now that it is installed it works well. It must be
a lot easier to install under Linux.

I was going to post my comments about the experience but I was waiting to
see if my posting that kicked off this thread resulted in anything useful.

I would like to get things set up so that I can retrieve my investment
account transactions but I have not had any time to do that yet.  Once I get
my taxes figured out (hopefully before the tax code gets even more
complicated) then I'll get back to trying more of the gnucash capabilities.

- Tom

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:27 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?
>
> 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>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>