Out of curiosity...

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Steve wrote:

>if one was inclined to switch over to another financial accounting program,
>does anyone have any success stories to share on exporting data out of
>GnuCash and into another program (the question on its face seems rather
>silly, since anyone doing so, likely wouldn't be reading this forum, but
>stranger things have happened)?
>
>  
>
Not silly exactly but the wrong place? With EVERY application I have 
seen, commercial as well as open source, it seems accepted that the 
responsibility of moving data between application alternatives is the 
responsibility of the importing application. In other words, the 
developers of that application (perhaps at the urging of their user 
base, perhaps based upon a management marketing decision)  decide to 
create tools to bring data form other application to their own. Or 
decide not to bother.

So it is on the forum of this other application I would look for topics 
like "importing data from gnucash".

Michael D Novack

PS: That is a sensible division of responsibility. In either case (no 
matter on which side the responsibility) the proof of the pudding 
testing is that the data arrives correctly into the receiving 
application and whether that process in some way messes up the data of 
the sending application not important (a copy of the data would need to 
be used if it did that, but that is trivial, and eliminates the need to 
test what happens to the data). In other words, it's the receiving end 
that must be tested.