Importing Quicken 16 files.

[David T.]

… and my experience (also many years ago) was that I was able to import the entire file (including account structure and transactions) in one huge import. There were, I admit, numerous areas that needed cleanup, but as my Quicken file was pretty clean, that cleanup was relatively painless. The adjustment from Quicken to GnuCash was a little rockier (as old timers on the list might recall…).

I certainly understand that others have had difficult file transitions, and support Steve’s approach as valid, but I wanted to offer an alternative perspective.

David

P.S. If I were to drink a six-pack for every moth processed, I imagine my data entry accuracy would slide precipitously.

> On Dec 22, 2016, at 6:25 AM, Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm certainly not here to diminish your enthusiasm... many years ago (how
> time passes), I opted to transfer over to GnuCash from Quicken (long have
> forgotten what version).  After various tries at importing the data, and
> finding I was spending too much time trying to "clean it up", etc., I
> decided:
> 
> 1. Not to try and transfer my entire history of Quicken, but rather focus on
> the last year
> 
> 2. Manually enter the last year of data into GnuCash, using the measure of a
> six pack of beer for every month of data
> 
> Can't say it wasn't a lot of fun, but the beer made it bearable, and all the
> data got entered exactly as it was in Quicken with no further clean-up.
> 
> ...a classic, fyi and fwiw
> 
> 
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