Migrate to QuickBooks

[The Wassermans]

Thank you Charles and others.

Yes Derek's advice was spot on and yes, the GC importer did a good job 
of allocating new accounts for me.

In my minds eye I thought one would have to have accounts set up to 
receive the data and I was fixed on that logic.  I have wasted hours and 
hours trying to prepare the ground that I incorrectly thought was 
necessary. Such is life.

Yes I was attempting to see what an exported set  GC chart of accounts 
would look life in QIF form.  I thought that would help me construct a 
qif from Quicken.
Yes the goal is to transfer all quicken data into GnuCash.

So far I have imported 6 years of credit card transactions successfully( 
About 4000 entries!).  One by one I am about to do the same for all my 
other accounts and then, my share portfolio.  It's going to be a big file.

I have a couple of questions, if I may:

1.  Will I be able to seamlessly transfer  all of this from 2.2.4  to Linux?
2.  Does GC run better in Linux than Windows version?

Dave W

Charles Day wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>     
>>> So....  Don't worry about you CoA.  Get your transactions into
>>> Gnucash first, and then you can fix the hierarchy if you need to.
>>>       
>
> I agree with Derek. The GnuCash QIF importer won't create accounts unless
> they are actually used by transactions in the QIF. In other words, a QIF
> file consisting solely of a chart of accounts will be ignored.
>
> When you begin importing the QIF files that actually contain transactions,
> the accounts will be created as you go along.
>
> Regarding the QIF content that you posted above, I'm confused as to why we
> are talking about gnucashtoqif and about exporting a chart of accounts from
> GnuCash. Were you just attempting to see what an exported chart of accounts
> should look like in QIF format? Just to eliminate any confusion, the goal is
> to have all data eventually going FROM Quickbooks TO GnuCash, correct?
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>
> Feel free to experiment and run the import several times, save in different
>   
>> places, until you get the import parameters right.
>>
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