[GNC] Starting from scratch

[Clint Chaplin]

The legacy MS product is Windows.  Started with WfW 3.11, but eventually
switched to WinXP to run DOS based stuff.

The legacy financial program is Managing Your Money 12.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM Mark at Lorimark <mark at lorimarksolutions.com>
wrote:

> Clint, let me know if you would like some help.  Depending on the legacy
> MS product you referenced there may be different paths to getting your
> data out.  The csv files can be useful.
>
> ~mark petryk
> ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
> ~q:i don't know where it's going to go,
>      ...and i don't know what to wear when it gets there.
>
> On 4/28/26 09:58, Clint Chaplin wrote:
> > I'm currently using two financial programs, really old financial
> programs.
> >
> > One of the programs crashes when attempting to generate even the
> > smallest report; it had issues in the original operating system, which
> > got magnified when I moved it to a more modern OS.  In addition, it has
> > a hard stop this year; it is incapable of handling 2027 and beyond
> > (legacy of a decision made n the earliest days by Microsoft)
> >
> > The other program?  It actually can generate reports, including CSV
> > reports.  I guess I need to play with the output to see if GnuCash can
> > deal with it.  I'll go looking for the GnuCash import documentation.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 2:40 PM Mark at Lorimark
> > <mark at lorimarksolutions.com <mailto:mark at lorimarksolutions.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Clint,
> >
> >     I'm curious what you mean by 'incapable of exporting' ?  Is there _no
> >     way_ to get to the data?
> >
> >     (I'm a programmer and I'm curious about your situation)
> >
> >     ~mark petryk
> >     ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com <
> http://www.lorimarksolutions.com>
> >     ~q:i don't know where it's going to go,
> >           ...and i don't know what to wear when it gets there.
> >
> >     On 4/27/26 10:12, Clint Chaplin wrote:
> >      > Hi, (soon to be) new user here.  I have almost 40 years of
> >     transactions, in
> >      > programs that are incapable of exporting, so I'll have to start
> >     entering
> >      > them in manually.
> >      >
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> > Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
>


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Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin