Exporting from Quicken

[Derek Atkins]

What OS/Distro?  Most common distros come with F::Q, or it's a simple
installation.  On Windows you do have to install PERL manually and then
run another installer (from the gnucash start menu).  But unless you're
running something stupid like slackware installing F::Q should be
extremely easy.  And even on slackware you've got the gnc-fq-update
script that uses CPAN to load all the F::Q modules.  So ... not sure
why you had such a hard time.  *shrugs*

-derek

"Thomas Peterson" <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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