Out of curiosity...

Michael Hendry hendry.michael at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 06:10:43 EST 2014 

> On 3 Dec 2014, at 14:34, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> At Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:57:37 -0600 Robert Kesterson <robertk at robertk.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have tried a few times to export my Gnucash data to other programs, by 
>> converting the XML file to QIF.  I don't recall the tool I used -- 
>> Google will find it if you want to look.  I was never happy with the 
>> results.  The biggest issue I ran into was the depth of my account 
>> structure.  I had four levels (ie, 
>> Expenses:Business:Utilities:Electric).  That would almost always result 
>> in a big mess when I imported the QIF into something else.  When I 
>> realized the problem and pared back to 3 levels (ie, 
>> BizExpense:Utilities:Electric) then it would import mostly OK.
>> 
>> However, like I said, I've tried a few times (mostly lured by more 
>> attractive user interfaces), but I have always returned to Gnucash.  The 
>> real double entry accounting is more useful to me than the category 
>> approach that nearly everything else uses.  And, though the some of the 
>> other user interfaces look a lot slicker, none of them is as actually 
>> usable as Gnucash.  I enter every receipt in Gnucash, usually with 
>> several splits on each receipt.  I can do all of that without my hands 
>> ever leaving the keyboard in Gnucash.  I absolutely loathe programs that 
>> make me reach for the mouse when I'm trying to type in a bunch of data.
> 
> +1
> 
> It seems that many GUI designers design their interfaces for the likes of 
> Zaphod Beeblebrox(1).

Puzzled by this for a while - why would having two heads help?

Then realised you were talking about the three arms.

Douglas Adams’s premature death deprived us all of a great mind!

Michael

> 
> 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox
> 
>> 
>>> Steve <mailto:butterandsalt at gmail.com>
>>> December 2, 2014 at 8:54 PM
>>> As I said in my original post, I was looking for anyone's success story in
>>> exporting the GnuCash data to another program, understanding that if 
>>> someone
>>> did that, they might no longer be monitoring this forum. I think I 
>>> used the
>>> word "silly" to express my acknowledged expectation that such a person 
>>> would
>>> still be lingering around to reply to me.
>>> 
>>> There's a warm comfort level, similar to the smell of fall, or freshly 
>>> baked
>>> chocolate chip cookies, knowing that if for any reason you wanted to exit
>>> your life out of GnuCash, others have successfully paved the way, without
>>> regard to what avenue they chose.
>>> 
>>> If I asked this same question in say, a Quicken forum, I'd get a ton of
>>> answers, as to how Quicken users have successfully exported their data to
>>> other programs. Upon reflection, I think my question is more important 
>>> than
>>> I first thought. I luv Gnucash, hate the absence of a full bodied mobile
>>> app, and like sitting in a movie theatre, find my comfort level would be
>>> increased if I knew an exit door existed, not that I wanted to use it.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Fast Radio <mailto:fastradio at yahoo.com>
>>> December 2, 2014 at 10:40 AM
>>> For what's it worth.
>>> I had a lot of trouble migrating to GNU Cash from Quickbooks.I had 
>>> been using Quickbooks before it was released to the public for sale 
>>> well over 20 years ago.Since 2009, I have been a Linux (Linux Mint) 
>>> user, and kept a separate computer for Quickbooks.In addition I had 
>>> purchased a commercial accounting program in 2012 "Accountz".  
>>> (accountz.com)
>>> What I ended up doing was "learning" to use GNU Cash on my own.The end 
>>> result of two years of trying to learn GNU Cash was rewarding. I am 
>>> pleased to say that while I had to lean on my own and struggle many 
>>> hours, the rewards will override the time and energy I had spent.  
>>> Since January of this year I have been 100% released from the bonds of 
>>> Quickbooks and Microsoft.
>>> If you have manual spread sheet experience and or accounting 
>>> experience, GNU Cash just makes sense.
>>> I now feel that I now have a better overall accounting package than 
>>> any of the commercial programs.The only deficient (in my opinion) is 
>>> that GNU Cash needs to find expert users throughout the World to help 
>>> others either in person or in  a classroom.
>>> For me, GNU Cash and a good Linux Desktop OS, is like a marriage made 
>>> in heaven.Drop Box offers 2 GB of free storage and my GNU Cash is 
>>> automatically backed up to the cloud.Yesterday, I set up a new lap top 
>>> computer, and Drop Box automatically filled it in with the needed 
>>> files I required. It just doesn't get easier than that.
>>> I suggest investing the time and effort.  I know it can be painful - I 
>>> suffered to get on-board - almost two years - but now I can handle my 
>>> affairs better than ever.  It seems like the more I put in the more I 
>>> got out.
>>> 
>>> Jack HalemLong Beach, CA, USA
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Monday, December 1, 2014 8:46 PM, Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My question was sincerely posed with NO other accounting package in 
>>> the back
>>> of my mind, or that I'm considering, or in my imagination; I was just
>>> curious how successful anyone has been, in trying to export GnuCash's
>>> structure and data to ANY other financial program.  Was a simple question.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Steve <mailto:butterandsalt at gmail.com>
>>> December 1, 2014 at 10:37 PM
>>> My question was sincerely posed with NO other accounting package in 
>>> the back
>>> of my mind, or that I'm considering, or in my imagination; I was just
>>> curious how successful anyone has been, in trying to export GnuCash's
>>> structure and data to ANY other financial program. Was a simple question.
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Mike or Penny Novack <mailto:stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com>
>>> December 1, 2014 at 8:07 AM
>>> Steve wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
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>>> Steve <mailto:butterandsalt at gmail.com>
>>> November 30, 2014 at 9:59 PM
>>> 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)?
>>> 
>>> 
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