Alternatively, Cricket, instead of exporting from Quicken, then arranging things as you like, then importing to GnuCash, or some variation of that, you could make a copy of your Quicken working file and from within Quicken, arrange things as you like with a mind toward exporting to GnuCash, then export from Quicken and import to GnuCash. At one point, I recall trying to decipher OFX or QIF files. I found that exporting the same data as CSV and opening in Excel gave me good hints about what I was looking at in the OFX or QIF
Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:06 PM Cricket Onebit <cricketbeauti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You WILL almost certainly see some strangeness in the imported data > > because Quicken doesn't strictly enforce balanced transactions as GnuCash > > does. When you're just dealing with a few years, you may find it easy to > go > > back and fix the odd strange transactions in Quicken, and start the > import > > over from scratch. > > > > That's my first choice. I already checked for uncategorized transactions, > and will remove the few stock purchases. Any other risky types? > > It seems like I started with the default GnuCash accounts, and worked from > > a printout of my Quicken accounts and categories, and created them in > > GnuCash beforehand. That made the transfer happen much faster because I > > wasn't creating new accounts as I went along. > > > > I remember letting GnuCash get the accounts from the QIF worked 2 years > ago. It was other things that didn't work. That method might affect its > ability to catch transfers. (Another reason I prefer double-entry > accounting. One transaction with many accounts, rather than two > transactions.) > > > > You might also try exporting just however many years of data from a > single > > bank account at a time until you have them all. Unless I'm > mis-remembering, > > I think the only places you'll have duplicate transactions will be those > > places where you transferred money BETWEEN the bank accounts. > > > > There are a lot of transfers, about 10 a month, with credit cards, mortgage > and car loan, and cash withdrawals. > > I think I'm ready for the next set of tests, hopefully in a few days. > > Good luck! > > > > Thanks! If the program is as good as the community, I'll be very happy. > > +++ > > Not as a ladder from earth to Heaven, not as a witness to any creed, > But simple service simply given to his own kind in their common need. > -- Rudyard Kipling > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
