[GNC] 1. Re: Request for help! (Patrick James)

[R Losey]

Just another thought on this: when I transitioned from Quicken to GnuCash,
I just started fresh with GnuCash; on the "transition date", I used the
current Quicken account balances, and then started from GnuCash. My theory
was that if I really needed some information or needed to look up
something, I could always run Quicken to see that data... and, as time
passed, the Quicken data would be less relevant.

I know that there is a danger of losing the cost-basis information in
investments, but I didn't have that much to be concerned about. Some of the
more important ones with not so many transactions I entered from scratch
with GnuCash.


On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:22 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Not clear from that comment if you did so, but it's also a bad idea to
> try to import everything in one go.
>
> While it seems like it would take more time, breaking the import into
> chunks (some would recommend monthly, reconciling after each one) allows
> you to train the import matcher, which in short order, greatly speeds up
> the process and saves you having to do as much pre-processing.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 7/13/24 8:40 PM, Eric Hammond wrote:
> > I started my GnuCash accounts by importing a massive amount of data from
> Quicken to text files, after it ate the qxf files.
> > I found that by creating an excel spreadsheet table with the columns
> labeled (similar to what you are doing) I could easily keep trying until it
> worked.
> > Then saved it xls format first (allows easy redo if needed), then saved
> as a CDF file (and rename to .csv if needed) for import
> > It took a while, but was quite successful.
>
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