Importing Quicken

[David Carlson]

David T,

Does the QIF importer detect duplicates created by transfers within the
same import file?  I seem to recall needing to separate accounts to
different files to detect them.

David C

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:00 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alen,
>
> What you’ve done with the Benefits section is better, but I still feel
> that any mention of benefits of migration is misplaced here. Someone
> looking for ways to migrate from Quicken presumably has already come to
> this conclusion.
>
> * I have edited the tips portion further. I added a tip regarding the
> whole Categories/Accounts paradigm.
>
> * I modified your tip regarding import of categories only, since it isn’t
> strictly necessary.
>
> I think it’s useful here to note that I didn’t have to either import the
> account structure or individual accounts separately when I imported my
> large QIF file way back in the dark ages—I simply exported everything in
> one big QIF and did the import from that. That was when I discovered the
> holes in my Quicken data. I chose to go back in to Quicken, fill in those
> holes, and re-export the entire file again, repeating until I had a clean
> enough import to move forward. I know that others have had a different
> experience.
>
> * I modified the tip about multiple currencies to more accurately reflect
> the situation and make it clear that the problem isn’t with GnuCash, but
> with QIF.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> > On Apr 4, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Alen Siljak <alen.siljak at gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, David,
> >
> > You are right. I've removed the benefits section but kept the fact about
> open data standards. Apart from being a benefit (to me), it is also a
> consequence of migration that may or may not be important for users.
> >
> >> You mention multi-currency problems with QIF, saying that GnuCash only
> handles one currency per file. However, I am under the impression that the
> problem of multiple currencies had to do with the *QIF* specification, and
> not GnuCash. In other words, the problem isn't that GnuCash doesn’t handle
> multiple currencies, it’s that QIF doesn’t. Can anyone confirm that for me?
> >
> > Yes, that's probably true. However, if an application interprets a
> transfer in such a manner that it takes 100 Euros from one and then
> deposits 100 AUD into another account without warning the user, that's a
> big no-no for me.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback!
>
>