Quicken import

[Elmar Schmeisser]

When I set up, I saw that this could also be exported that way in
Quicken, but when I tried it, the pile of stuff in GC became
overwhelming.  Doing one account at a time kept the cleanup process
manageable, and I was able to do each chunk in a sitting, and spread it
out over a couple of days. Starting with the smallest accounts and then
progressing to thhe larger ones also lets you learn GC's way of seeing
the finances in manageable chunks, imho. - Elmar

On 5/20/2016 4:50 PM, David T. wrote:
> Elmar,
> 
> When I did this process in the dark ages, I was able to have Quicken
> export All Accounts and Categories, and import the entire file in one
> go. That may have changed with recent versions of Quicken.
> 
> GnuCash will, as you say, create accounts for each Quicken category,
> so if your Quicken transactions are all assigned to categories, the
> process can be quite efficient.
> 
> David
> 
>> On May 20, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Elmar Schmeisser
>> <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You will have to export in Quicken each single account as a QIF.
>> then import them one at a time.  Be aware that when you do, each
>> and every "category" you've assigned in quicken will be come an
>> expense "account" in GC.  The major amount of time you spend after
>> importing  will be cleaning those up. - elmar

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