[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 196, Issue 61

[Clint Chaplin]

How did you handle your investments?  I can see starting afresh with
standard transactions, but investments can live and have records for
decades (capital gains/losses, etc.).

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:41 PM Mike Commissaris <
commissaris.mike at gmail.com> wrote:

> [GNC] Migration
>
>
> >
> > Message: 12
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:01:05 -0700
> > From: Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com>
> > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: [GNC] Migration
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for, well, some assurance here.
> >
> > How many of you migrated to GnuCash from another financial product?  If
> you
> > did, what did you migrate from?  How much data did you have to migrate?
> > And would you do it again knowing what you know now?
> >
> > I am currently using MYM12 with 34 years of data, as well as Quicken5 in
> > parallel for the last 20 some odd years.  MYM12 is still plugging away,
> but
> > Quicken5 is showing signs of reaching its limits.  Thinking of next
> steps.
> > I have read through the GnuCash Guide, and done a little browsing through
> > the last few months of messages here.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> >  I read most of the manuals and instructions while using GNC in parallel
> with Quicken for a year. I was also learning Linux Mint. I do home
> accounting and some investments. Also used AR a couple times.  I dumped
> Quicken and migrated another previous years data on a month by month, by
> account basis. I now only use Quicken for 10 plus year's of pre-GNC
> history.
>
> I guess I have learned that migrating in smaller chunks is better and check
> the quality of the files to be imported.
>
> GNC does everything I want to do. Double entry occasionally plays games
> with my head when addressing a new operation, and I search this forum quite
> often. It is amazing at the amount of programmer and user help that I see
> in this forum. Thanks to everyone.
>
> --
> Mike
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Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin