[GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif

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On November 2, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:

>Yes, there should be an Export... QIF function in Quicken.
>I did that recently for a club account which was pretty straight-forward,
>no stocks, etc.
>The main problem I found was that when your Quicken database
>has a transfer from one account to the other, when you import
>the QIF file into Gnucash, all the transfers will be duplicated.
>You have to manually go through and
>delete one of the duplicated transactions for every transfer.

Many years ago, I made the jump with a quicken file that had all sorts of accounts. I had no problems with duplicates, although capital gains were a challenge.

David T.


>On 11/2/2018 8:12 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>> If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format
>> owned by Intuit.  The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken
>> program to open the file and then export to QIF format.  Hang on to Quicken
>> until you have experimented with importing the QIF files into GnuCash to be
>> sure that you are getting satisfactory results.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 4:17 AM Mark Schwomeyer via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>>> GreetingsWe have for years used Quicken, (1998 at least) (latest is 2008)
>>> they have went to a paid subscription service. (I think is overpriced)That
>>> said I have used Open Office for a while and thought to look for a open
>>> source financial program.The search for programs listed that GNUCASH would
>>> be compatible with .qdf
>>> GNUCASH was chosen and downloaded. I need to import the latest file
>>> (backup).The only choice was to import a .qif file. Our version of Quicken
>>> used .qdf as a working extension and as backup files.I have downloaded a
>>> conversion program attached to Mozilla, but the convert button only wants
>>> to convert pdf .doc
>>> compress, .jpg, .ppt.  Maybe a couple others, but no .qdf.The program I
>>> downloaded, under further investigation, is a .pdf conversion program. [
>>> fileconverter.org] Although it listed .qdf on the page.
>>> Does anyone know of a conversion for .qdf to .qif so I can use gnucash.
>>> Thanks Mark
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