Exporting from Quicken

[Thomas Peterson]

Windows. I think it all started when I installed the latest ActivePerl (
v5.10) and install-fq-mods.bat didn't like it. I then needed an appropriate
Crypt-SSLeay to work with v5.10 and Finance-Quote had to be installed by
hand since the Perl Package Manager knew nothing about it. It was all rather
painful.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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