Importing from Quicken 2001

[David Carlson]

On 6/26/2015 12:53 PM, Bob55 wrote:
> I've got no background in accounting, but have been using Quicken since about
> 1990 to manage my personal finances. However, its lack of support for UK
> users has led to me being recommended to transfer my finance information to
> GnuCash. I've installed it, but can only find details of importing QIF
> files. My data is in a QDF file in Quicken (about 16MB), but the Quicken
> export function gives me the option of converting an account to QIF.
> Unfortunately this only seems to work for one account at a time and over the
> years I've created over 100. Has anyone faced similar problems and resolved
> them without resorting to doing 100+ separate extracts and imports?
>
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Many of us have been where you are now.  You need to develop a plan and
expect the conversion to be a major project with worthwhile results.

Each of us has different expectations, so we have different solutions to
meet our needs.  First you need to explore the conversion process and
identify the parts of your data that are actually important enough to
convert.  Many of us bite the bullet and only convert the last year or
so of data, leaving the older stuff in the old format.  Often, older
data is not structured well for our current taste anyway.  Since Quicken
is not designed to follow double entry bookkeeping standards rigorously
you may find that some of your data does not import well and would need
to be massaged too much to be worth the effort.

Some of us have run both programs in parallel for a while to be sure
that the new program and the new data format will meet  our present
needs.  Some changes usually need to be made to be efficient in the new
environment.  Good luck!

David C