Thanks for the heads up, David. My plan is to create and rename a copy of the qif file, and isolate the process from Quicken. I tend to keep clean records, but if as you say, quicken allowed for variability, I could have some entries that might create problems. Plus the fact that I'm something of a hoarder and keep records that go back quite a way. This is going to be fun. Or not. We'll see.
<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> Annie Delyth Stratton ________________________________ From: David Carlson <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Cc: John Ralls; Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif The developers cannot guarantee anything. Many users have had good results, but many of us needed to run tests with about a month's data at a time mostly because Quicken allowed sloppy records that do not import very well. If that is your situation you might be better served to manipulate transactions in Quicken before exporting to the QIF format. Experiment freely before committing. David C On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:35 PM Annie Delyth Stratton <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks, John. I thought that might be the case, but I need the explicit reassurance that if I jump in, something won't go blooey on me (having had that happen a few times in my life...). And thanks for the tip about doing just a month at a time. Sounds like a learning curve for both me and GnuCash. Fun coming up. <http://aka.ms/weboutlook<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fweboutlook&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd98edd26fe1d4684357f08d654c2518c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636789590893454255&sdata=nRT37mnUXpLgQykk79V0KNKs1E5vzfQmFnLtbzamorQ%3D&reserved=0>> Annie Delyth Stratton ________________________________ From: John Ralls <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 6:25 PM To: Annie Delyth Stratton Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] Trying to use gnucash need to convert .qdf to /qif On Nov 28, 2018, at 12:52 AM, Annie Delyth Stratton <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: RE David's comment: "As far as I know, qdf files have no conversion options. Period. You will have to export qif from quicken." Older versions of Quicken used qdf. Newer versions use gif. In order to translate gdf to qif, you need to use an intermediate version of Quicken to import into. I used Quicken 2007 for so long that when I went to the 2016 version, it could no longer recognize qdf. The workaround was to download a version which CAN recognize qdf and translate it into a qif file. I think I used Quicken 10, recommended to me by another user. It was easy to find free downloads of older Quicken software then, not sure about now. One could ask around. I did a quick search just now and found a conversion utility by Intuit that might also do the job. 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Quicken Converter allows you to convert Quicken files from an older release of Quicken (2011 and below) to the newer Quicken format which can then be read by QuickBooks 2012 or later. en.freedownloadmanager.org<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.freedownloadmanager.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cd98edd26fe1d4684357f08d654c2518c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636789590893454255&sdata=QN1pBO7jEY%2BbtMKLZDQtvcsmPrvioKcG8VZ%2FSPbmQn0%3D&reserved=0> The main reason I went to 2016 was that I was afraid of ending up with a file that would be obsolete. Gnu was suggested to me, but at the time I wasn't ready to take it on. I am pretty fed up with Quicken at this point, and ready to trash it. I just downloaded Gnucash. Read the entire manual last night, but I saw NOTHING in it that steps through importing a qif file. Since you guys clearly have some experience with that, can you help me out? File>Import...>QIF. The assistant will lead you through the process. 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