[GNC] importing simple investment account

[Ken Farley]

I don't know how complicated the data you are attempting to transfer is. 
I can tell you that I recently had access to an old computer with 
Quicken 2011. I used this to write out 10 years of .QIF files, one file 
for each year, data for that year only. I had it include everything that 
it would for me - accounts, all transactions, securities, etc. I seem to 
remember, when I first ditched the old program for Gnucash, that I had a 
bit of a hard time attempting to convert data. I eventually gave up and 
just started with an empty file and manually constructed the account 
structure, put in all the transactions for the last year or so, and ran 
both Gnucash and Quicken concurrently until I was able to switch over 
completely.

This last go at it, with the latest Gnucash (4.12) I was able to read 
all those .QIF files very easily. The only data troubles I had were the 
result of my carelessness all those years ago in making Quicken entries, 
and maybe some oddities in how Quicken handles stock splits. Easy stuff 
to fix. The only thing I never got to transfer over was the price 
database from Quicken. None of the historical prices seemed to get 
through. Again, probably my fault.

So, if you're not averse to updating to the latest version of Gnucash, 
I'd recommend it for this type of thing. The interface was rather nice, 
once I got used to it. Reading stuff in, checking it, fixing problems, 
was pretty straightforward to me.