i'll try downloading 4.12 and see if it goes better. thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Sally Abrams via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> To: Ken Farley <farle...@gmail.com> Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Sun, Nov 20, 2022 4:58 pm Subject: Re: [GNC] importing simple investment account My current problem is I can’t even find the program. I haven’t even gotten to transferring files because the program isn’t being found. The set up program says it’s there. But a search of my computer only comes up with the setup link. No icon. Not on start up menu. Not on list of programs. If I search for gnucash just the set up link comes up. I can’t proceed at all if I can’t find the actual program. I’ve run the set up program 3 times now. It looks liked it’s going well. The last 2 times it said it had to remove the existing program first which it did but I have no idea where it found that program. So in theory the program is on my computer but I have no way to locate it. > On Nov 20, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Ken Farley <farle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know how complicated the data you are attempting to transfer is. I > can tell you that I recently had access to an old computer with Quicken 2011. > I used this to write out 10 years of .QIF files, one file for each year, data > for that year only. I had it include everything that it would for me - > accounts, all transactions, securities, etc. I seem to remember, when I first > ditched the old program for Gnucash, that I had a bit of a hard time > attempting to convert data. I eventually gave up and just started with an > empty file and manually constructed the account structure, put in all the > transactions for the last year or so, and ran both Gnucash and Quicken > concurrently until I was able to switch over completely. > > This last go at it, with the latest Gnucash (4.12) I was able to read all > those .QIF files very easily. The only data troubles I had were the result of > my carelessness all those years ago in making Quicken entries, and maybe some > oddities in how Quicken handles stock splits. Easy stuff to fix. The only > thing I never got to transfer over was the price database from Quicken. None > of the historical prices seemed to get through. Again, probably my fault. > > So, if you're not averse to updating to the latest version of Gnucash, I'd > recommend it for this type of thing. The interface was rather nice, once I > got used to it. Reading stuff in, checking it, fixing problems, was pretty > straightforward to me. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
