Importing Quicken

[David Carlson]

Edward, Please use reply all to include the maillist.

You need to read the manual and understand how double entry bookkeeping
works.  You do not really have hundreds of accounts that don't actually
exist.  As you stated originally, you only have three bank accounts.  All
the others would be what were called categories in Quicken but they are
Income and Expense accounts in GnuCash

David C

David C



On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Edward Ingram <edwardingram439 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response!
> I discovered that I could export my Quicken in .QIF and amazingly, gnucash
> had no problems whatsoever  importing them. I'm a little intimidated as I
> begin to learn gnucash as I have hundreds of accounts that don't actually
> exist. I will need months of work to reduce them to the three registers
> that I actually need.
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:16 AM, David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The QDF format is one of the data formats that Quicken has used over the
>> years.  It is proprietary and sufficiently encrypted to be impossible to
>> read with other programs.  Before you abandon Quicken you need to use it to
>> open your file and export your data to QIF format which GnuCash can
>> import.  Depending on how much data you have we usually suggest exporting
>> one account at a time.  Good Luck.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Edward Ingram <
>> edwardingram439 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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