Recategorizing / bulk acount changing

[Elwood]

i just hope I'm not reorganizing for 10 years.  I'm trying to move from Quicken 2002 to GnuCash.  My initial import attempt revealed a variety of issues, some of which need to be changes in my import settings, but many of which were simply recategorization/account shifting problems.  Since then, I've been trying to use the Recategorize feature in Quicken to clean up before exporting a new QIF to feed into GnuCash.  I guess I'm just expecting that one always needs some amount of account changing capability on an ongoing basis because no ones perfect on their transaction entry, but maybe you're right about it mostly being a temporary problem.

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> On Feb 6, 2014, at 3:21 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:42:16 -0600
> Elwood <elwoodblues at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> As someone trying to migrate away from Quicken, 
>> 
>> Am I missing something here?
> 
> Many years ago I left Quicken behind, and indeed my books needed a lot
> of work before they were accurate. About 10 years later I was still
> reorganising things because I needed more information / better
> subcategories and so on.
> 
> I don't think that an easier way of selecting and moving transactions
> makes that much difference. The exit from Quicken is troublesome
> because the program doesn't do real accounting, and it is too easy to
> put debits where credits should be. I had to check each transaction
> individually, and my experience tells me that being able to bulk move
> transactions after export from Quicken isn't going to be a way to
> produce accurate books.
> 
> Secondly
> Leaving Quicken is a once only thing. I'd rather the sparse developer
> time was spent on improving stuff we are all going to use repetitively. 
> 
> Liz
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