[GNC] Starting from scratch

[Elliot Graham]

Mym2qif springs to mind as an option?

Surely for your investments you just need your average cost basis and
number of units? Unless you’re holding a weird approach to capital gains
for tax purposes (ie first in last out)

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 21:48, Clint Chaplin <joatmon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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