[GNC] Exporting Quicken Data into QIF Files for GnuCash truncates Memo Fields

[Sherlock]

Hi Tom,

In September 2022, I successfully migrated our 25 year old Quicken data 
file to GnuCash 4.12 on Windows 10. To work around Quicken's QIF export 
memo truncation issue, I recall running queries in Quicken to produce 
transaction report files with the impacted transactions and then using a 
script to correct the truncated memos in the QIF file.

Regards,

Sherlock


On 8/27/25 8:46 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is more of a Quicken question than a GnuCash question; but I'm 
> wondering if anyone here has run into a similar issue with transferring 
> data from Quicken to GnuCash -- and (maybe) figured out a way around it.
> 
> When I transfer transactions from Quicken 2016 into a QIF file for 
> importing into GnuCash, I'm finding that all the Quicken Memo fields get 
> truncated down to 30 characters regardless of how many characters are 
> actually in those Memo fields.  For reference, note that Quicken 2016 
> supports Memo fields up to 64 characters.  And GnuCash v5.12 supports 
> Memo fields of well over 100 characters.
> 
> What I'm wondering or asking here is this.  Has anyone else run into 
> this issue?  And does anyone have a suggestion for how it might be 
> possible to export the full 64-character Memo fields from Quicken? (FYI, 
> we're talking over 20 years of Quicken data here.)  Any help or ideas 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Tom