[GNC] Migrating from AceMoney

[Adrien Monteleone]

If you have the install discs for that machine, consider converting to a VM if you want to ditch Windows as the main OS sooner rather than later. (you could dual boot, but since the end goal is ditch Windows entirely, and you likely need AceMoney you won’t want to reboot to switch back and forth) Also note, some recovery discs won’t install into a VM, you’d need original Windows discs.

For MacOS, you can use VirtualBox or VMWare at no charge, VMWare also has a paid version and there is also Parallels. With VMWare and Parallels you can easily run Windows apps seamlessly on the Mac. If you are bit adventurous, you might get lucky via Wine as well. (which has a paid version called ‘Crossover’)

VMWare used to have a separate tool to convert a physical Windows installation into a VM so if you don’t have the discs to fresh install into the VM, you could go that route. I know it worked for XP, not sure of the Vista/7 or later.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:
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> 
> You are most welcome. What I ended up doing is saving all the Quicken individual account files in every export format I could figure out (created dozens and dozens of files in .qif, .txt, .csv, .xlsx formats), just in case like you, I decided I needed the data later for some reason. So far, I've not needed them.
> 
> Those files are backed up six ways from Sunday along with all the other stuff I think has "saving value".
> 
> Perhaps that technique would work for you, too.
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> On 1/28/2019 3:59 PM, Jason Voss wrote:
>> I had been thinking I wanted all the historical transactions but you've started me thinking a bit differently.
>> 
>> I suppose I could keep the old machine and AceMoney files to prepare 2018 taxes... and start transaction files in Gnucash as of Jan. 1 2019. (I can probably brute force my way through getting one month of data into the new system.)
>> 
>> I need to give more thought to downside of losing the old records. We have mined them before for several different reasons. Not sure if casting them aside might be regretted later. (I really want to get rid of the windows machine... not keep it around any longer than necessary. I'm a convert to Apple and really don't like Microsoft. Although Apple has adopted many of their business practices and now also frustrates me, their hardware and drivers are sure more stable and give me fewer headaches.)
>> 
>> Appreciate the assistance from you and David.
> 
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