[GNC] Migration

[Mike Commissaris]

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> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:09:27 -0700
> From: Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com>
> To: Mike Commissaris <commissaris.mike at gmail.com>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 196, Issue 61
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> 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.).
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> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:41 PM Mike Commissaris <
> commissaris.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
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Sorry, not much help for you in that regard. I have a small number of
mutual funds and tend to buy and hold. I did, as you say,  just start fresh
at the beginning of the year, and just added the small amount of activity
throughout the year, without any import. Time allowing, I enter previous
data as I can.



> [GNC] Migration
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> > > 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,
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> > > 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
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> > >  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.
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