[GNC] Changing account tree on large database

[nvsoar]

On 04/26/19 16:18, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 4:53 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Strongly consider only moving one or two years data to GnuCash.
>>
> I agree. I found that I could import a lot more, but I found I was going
> crazy trying to make everything look right, which ultimately seemed
> pointless for things like long-ago closed bank accounts etc.
>
> Since I had been using Quicken since the 1990s I had a number of
> "historical" transactions I MIGHT conceivably want to look up, so I
> exported those and kept the (enormous) QIF files. Any time I want to find a
> transaction I can just do a few searches through the QIF file and find the
> transaction date and the amount. If I really really want to, I COULD create
> a "historical" GnuCash book with the imported data and just ignore the odd
> balances etc.
>
> (I'm looking through my data and found that I kept a complete QIF I
> exported in 2000, and then another one I exported in 2007. I believe 2007
> is when I gave up on Quicken for good, so my original GnuCash-only data was
> based upon 2006 and 2007 transactions only.)
>
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FWIW - if Quicken will export to a .csv file then I think I would 
download the entire Quicken file, and then import to GnuCash only those 
files that I need to refer to, and leave the rest as an archive in the 
.csv file.
nvsoar