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

[Paul Kinzelman]

Perhaps your Quicken had no transfers between accounts?

I posted in this list and was told that's how it is because the transfer
appears in two places in the QIF file and figuring out that it's the
same transaction was not worth implementing in the import code.
I also tried editing the QIF code manually but finally gave up because
that merely moved the manual intervention, didn't eliminate them.

Best thing to do is be aware of the issue and just try it and see
what happens, then post your results here.

On 11/2/2018 9:17 AM, D wrote:
>
> 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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