[GNC] importing simple investment account

[Sally Abrams]

that did it.  thanks.  installing 4.12 installed the icon and I now can find the program.  


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From: Sally Abrams via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>; farleykj at gmail.com <farleykj at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sun, Nov 20, 2022 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: [GNC] importing simple investment account

i'll try downloading 4.12 and see if it goes better. thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Abrams via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
To: Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Sun, Nov 20, 2022 4:58 pm
Subject: Re: [GNC] importing simple investment account

My current problem is I can’t even find the program.  I haven’t even gotten to transferring files because the program isn’t being found.  The set up program says it’s there. But a search of my computer only comes up with the setup link.  No icon. Not on start up menu. Not on list of programs.  If I search for gnucash just the set up link comes up.  I can’t proceed at all if I can’t find the actual program.  I’ve run the set up program 3 times now.  It looks liked it’s going well. The last 2 times it said it had to remove the existing program first which it did but I have no idea where it found that program.  So in theory the program is on my computer but I have no way to locate it. 

> On Nov 20, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Ken Farley <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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