Help importing Quicken files

[Richard Dawson]

Quicken's data files are likely be just about anywhere in your home directory 
or its subdirectory.   It depends on where they were stored.   I don't know if 
Quicken's default file location is.  Some rude programs default to a 
subdirectory within the program's own directory.  c:\Program 
Files\Quicken\Data, perhaps?

Having recently converted some Quicken files, I suggest that you go on E-bay 
and look for a copy of Q2010.  Transferring data from Quicken format to 
gnucash is not for the faint of heart!  

I may have missed something when I did my transfer, but there is some 
ambiguity, since Quicken doesn't establish accounts.  I found that some (not 
all)  transactions came across twice, for instance, once from the checking 
account file and once from the category file corresponding to the transaction.  
It took a lot of time and patience to sort it all out.  Also, I frequently 
needed to open the file in Quicken to determine how a transaction really worked 
and also to verirfy the ending balances of accounts.

I would recommend moving to gnucash, although you may find reports a little 
less friendly than Quicken.  To do that, however,  I would first get the 
accounts all squared away in quicken, then transfer.