Importing Quicken

[Colin Law]

I believe you have to export from quicken to QIF. Should be in the
menus somewhere.

Colin

On 10 March 2018 at 16:12, Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at cox.net> wrote:
> Edward -- I did the switch about 8 months ago and have not looked back.
>
> I am pretty sure you can directly import your file from Quicken.  I do not
> remember exactly how I did it but I think QIF means quicken file so it
> should work.
>
> Three things to be aware:
>
> 1.  If you use categories -- those no longer exist is GNUCASH.  Each
> category, theoretically becomes a separate account
> 2.  Double entry accounting means that for every entry there will be an
> opposite an equal "counter" entry into a second account
> 3.  Finally, to get started at the beginning, you will have some "beginning
> balances" entries.
>
> Hope this all makes sense.  It may not covert over 100% --- and depending
> upon how long you were using Quicken -- you could have a lot of
> transactions.  I had transactions dated back to 2001 -- and decided I did
> not want to carry all that stuff -- so I picked a cutoff date (1/1/2014) and
> ended up deleting everything before that.    It was a bit a work -- but in
> the end -- very much worth it.
>
> Best of luck -- and I am sure of the experts here can give you a bit more
> direction on the QIF file (I just don't remember what I did -- but it did
> work!).
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=cox.net at gnucash.org> On
> Behalf Of Edward Ingram
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 8:03 AM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Importing Quicken
>
> My Quicken files are stored in .QDF format, not .QIF. (Quicken 2017) How can
> I import these? I do not wish to continue using quicken.
> I only have three bank accounts and no investments. I do not need the extras
> of Quicken.
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