Quicken import

[Elmar Schmeisser]

Well, yes, assuming one was in fact rather OCD about the categories in
Quicken.  In my case, it was sorta scattered, to be polite about it :)
GC made me clean all that up, actually.  And since I was just learning
GC, starting small, account by account, made sense.  And even then, I
started over 4 times.

- Elmar

On 5/20/2016 7:18 PM, David T. wrote:
> Your initial message implied strongly that it was required to import
> each account one at a time, rather than it being your choice to
> import that way. I was trying to clarify that.
> 
> When I did the import, I chose to go back to Quicken and clean up the
> data there, until I got the result I was looking for. As I have said
> on a number of occasions before, this worked for me because I
> consistently assigned my transactions to categories. It was easier
> for me to import the entire data set, see where I had gaps, go back
> to Quicken, fill the gaps, and repeat the export/import process.
> Ultimately, I had my entire Quicken dat set in GnuCash, with only a
> few gaps in the import. That worked for me. Your method would also
> work.
> 
> Cheers, David
> 
>> On May 20, 2016, at 5:32 PM, Elmar Schmeisser
>> <eschmeisser at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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