Exporting from Quicken

[The Wassermans]

Well Tom,

While you're taxing about, I might get a better hang of GC things and 
issues and can return the favour.

Rehgards
Dave W

Thomas Peterson wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <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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