Exporting from Quicken

[Derek Atkins]

Ahh..  Yes, you cannot use ActivePerl 5.10.  You need 5.8.

-derek

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

> 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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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available