downloading issue

[suk wah bernstein]

thank you all. a big, huge shout out to all of you who so kindly, patiently
and generously guide me through this. so twenty emails later i am thrilled
to report that i'm looking at our personal finances through gnucash.
actually i am looking at the checking account. it is beautiful. wow. i've
made entries. tomorrow i am ready to reconcile. amazing.

i thank you all with all my heart. you know who you are, john, peter, colin,
david. you guys truly rock.

love and respect
suk wah

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 22 September 2011 19:00, suk wah bernstein <sukwahbernstein at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > peter and colin. thanks so much for jumping in. appreciate it.
> > let me run this by you all before i start doing anything. quicken data
> file
> > is on quicken 2000 in powermac 7600. so, transfer data on zip disk
>
> You have gone wrong already.  You have to use Quicken to generate the
> qif file.  A couple of posts ago prl pointed the direction to go to do
> this (File > Export).  Then take the qif file across to the mac for
> import into gnucash.
>
> Colin
>
> > (i know,
> > it's that ancient. that babe has been with me since 1996.) book a genius
> bar
> > appt. take computer and zip disk and drive in. have them import quicken
> qif
> > into macbook pro.
> > or, is it possible that someone out there might be able to walk me
> through
> > this quicken to qif  export/import thing?
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 22 September 2011 03:34, suk wah bernstein <
> sukwahbernstein at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > click on gnucash. menu bar opens. tip of day opens. i close it. select
> >> > import. select qif. qif import window opens. click forward. select qif
> >> > window opens. click 'all files' bottom right. click select. finder
> >> > window
> >> > opens. select quicken data file. go back to 'select qif' window.'
> click
> >> > select. name of quicken data file appears in blank box next to
> 'select.'
> >> > click 'forward'. blank browser window opens with the url part in
> black,
> >> > part
> >> > in grey.
> >>
> >> It is a long time since I switched from Quicken but at that time it
> >> was necessary to export the data from Quicken as a qif file.  You
> >> comment above suggests that you are trying to read the quicken data
> >> file itself without first exporting it as qif.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >
> >
>
>
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