[GNC] Migration

Clint Chaplin joatmon at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 13:38:22 EDT 2019


The more basic limitation of MYM is the complete inability to include
transfers to different "accounts" (bank, investment, credit card), in a
split transaction.  Splits can only go to budget categories.

This causes lots of silly/stupid workarounds like the one below.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:12 AM Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> MYM, unfortunately, does not rigidly enforce the double entry aspects of
> financial recording.  As a for instance, 401(k) contributions from my
> paycheck would not automatically transfer to the account; I've had to
> manually adjust the cash balance of the investment to record the
> contribution.
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:20 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Welcome to GnuCash!
>>
>> I found the user group called "MYM users" on Facebook and the forum on
>> https://www.starkeysoftware.com/MYM/.  I recall that MYM was very nice
>> when
>> I used it, and I think it was rather rigidly double-entry, so it should
>> import into GnuCash rather easily if it can make good QIF exports.  Since
>> it basically is limited to one or two years' data in a data file, you
>> would
>> probably want to convert one file at a time and keep them separate rather
>> than concatenating them into a "huge" single data file.  While GnuCash
>> doesn't have the DOS limits, from personal experience I can tell you that
>> it still gets slow with a decade long data file.
>>
>> I have some old MYM data files on some old hard drive if I ever have time
>> to fire it up, or really old floppies but I can't find them right now.
>>
>> GnuCash is rigidly double-entry but it can keep basic investment records
>> as
>> well as checkbook records.  It is limited as a budgeting tool, tho.
>>
>> It does have a bit of a learning curve, but I like it better than the
>> others that I have tried.
>>
>> David Carlson
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:21 AM Dennis Powless <dpowless517 at pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I can say the migration process wasn't easy, but wasn't too hard.  I was
>> > able to do it and got it up and running with all my old quicken data.  I
>> > can't remember the number of years of quicken data, maybe 5-10 years or
>> > more.  I've probably been with gnucash for about 10 years maybe.
>> >
>> > After all is said and done, I'd NEVER go back to quicken.  Gnucash has
>> done
>> > everything I need (I don't have complicated stocks or investments).  I
>> only
>> > use it for my personal finances, not a business, so can't comment on
>> that.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm not familiar with MYM12, so don't know about that migration.
>> >
>> > Gnucash is a great program and open source, the devs work very hard on
>> > keeping it up to date and are making improvements all the time.
>> >
>> > d
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:04 PM David T. via gnucash-user <
>> > gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I won't comment on whether the migration process has become simpler
>> over
>> > > the years, as I haven't done it in about as long.
>> > >
>> > > There has been a huge amount of discussion over the years on the
>> question
>> > > of migration from Quicken (usually tied either to the beginning of a
>> new
>> > > calendar year, or the imposition of a new fee structure by Intuit).
>> > >
>> > > A search of the mailing list archives will turn these up.
>> > >
>> > > Additionally, the wiki includes a summary of many of the points that
>> have
>> > > been raised on the topic.
>> > > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Importing.2FExporting_Data
>> > >
>> > > I can't comment on the ease of migration from the other application,
>> but
>> > I
>> > > can say that the strict enforcement of double entry accounting in
>> gnucash
>> > > causes most Quicken refugees some discomfort. People with complicated
>> > stock
>> > > holdings also encounter special challenges typically.
>> > >
>> > > David
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >   On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 6:54, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user<
>> > > gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:   On 7/31/19 5:01 PM, Clint Chaplin
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > 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 ran Quicken for a few years, but I could not stand Windows 95
>> (current
>> > > at the time), so I switched to Red Hat Linux 5 in about mid 1998. A
>> > > little later, I started using GnuCash. It could presumably convert
>> from
>> > > Quicken, but it made such a mess of mine that I just dropped all the
>> old
>> > > data and started afresh.
>> > >
>> > > I suppose in the decade or more since than, Gnucash has improved the
>> > > behavior of the conversions.
>> > >
>> > >
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