The more basic limitation of MYM is the complete inability to include transfers to different "accounts" (bank, investment, credit card), in a split transaction. Splits can only go to budget categories.
This causes lots of silly/stupid workarounds like the one below. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:12 AM Clint Chaplin <joat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > MYM, unfortunately, does not rigidly enforce the double entry aspects of > financial recording. As a for instance, 401(k) contributions from my > paycheck would not automatically transfer to the account; I've had to > manually adjust the cash balance of the investment to record the > contribution. > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:20 AM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Welcome to GnuCash! >> >> I found the user group called "MYM users" on Facebook and the forum on >> https://www.starkeysoftware.com/MYM/. I recall that MYM was very nice >> when >> I used it, and I think it was rather rigidly double-entry, so it should >> import into GnuCash rather easily if it can make good QIF exports. Since >> it basically is limited to one or two years' data in a data file, you >> would >> probably want to convert one file at a time and keep them separate rather >> than concatenating them into a "huge" single data file. While GnuCash >> doesn't have the DOS limits, from personal experience I can tell you that >> it still gets slow with a decade long data file. >> >> I have some old MYM data files on some old hard drive if I ever have time >> to fire it up, or really old floppies but I can't find them right now. >> >> GnuCash is rigidly double-entry but it can keep basic investment records >> as >> well as checkbook records. It is limited as a budgeting tool, tho. >> >> It does have a bit of a learning curve, but I like it better than the >> others that I have tried. >> >> David Carlson >> >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:21 AM Dennis Powless <dpowless...@pobox.com> >> wrote: >> >> > I can say the migration process wasn't easy, but wasn't too hard. I was >> > able to do it and got it up and running with all my old quicken data. I >> > can't remember the number of years of quicken data, maybe 5-10 years or >> > more. I've probably been with gnucash for about 10 years maybe. >> > >> > After all is said and done, I'd NEVER go back to quicken. Gnucash has >> done >> > everything I need (I don't have complicated stocks or investments). I >> only >> > use it for my personal finances, not a business, so can't comment on >> that. >> > >> > >> > I'm not familiar with MYM12, so don't know about that migration. >> > >> > Gnucash is a great program and open source, the devs work very hard on >> > keeping it up to date and are making improvements all the time. >> > >> > d >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:04 PM David T. via gnucash-user < >> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> > >> > > I won't comment on whether the migration process has become simpler >> over >> > > the years, as I haven't done it in about as long. >> > > >> > > There has been a huge amount of discussion over the years on the >> question >> > > of migration from Quicken (usually tied either to the beginning of a >> new >> > > calendar year, or the imposition of a new fee structure by Intuit). >> > > >> > > A search of the mailing list archives will turn these up. >> > > >> > > Additionally, the wiki includes a summary of many of the points that >> have >> > > been raised on the topic. >> > > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Importing.2FExporting_Data >> > > >> > > I can't comment on the ease of migration from the other application, >> but >> > I >> > > can say that the strict enforcement of double entry accounting in >> gnucash >> > > causes most Quicken refugees some discomfort. People with complicated >> > stock >> > > holdings also encounter special challenges typically. >> > > >> > > David >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 6:54, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user< >> > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: On 7/31/19 5:01 PM, Clint Chaplin >> > > wrote: >> > > > Hi all, >> > > > >> > > > I am looking for, well, some assurance here. >> > > > >> > > > How many of you migrated to GnuCash from another financial >> product? If >> > > you >> > > > did, what did you migrate from? How much data did you have to >> migrate? >> > > > And would you do it again knowing what you know now? >> > > > >> > > >> > > I ran Quicken for a few years, but I could not stand Windows 95 >> (current >> > > at the time), so I switched to Red Hat Linux 5 in about mid 1998. A >> > > little later, I started using GnuCash. It could presumably convert >> from >> > > Quicken, but it made such a mess of mine that I just dropped all the >> old >> > > data and started afresh. >> > > >> > > I suppose in the decade or more since than, Gnucash has improved the >> > > behavior of the conversions. >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > .~. 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