Just another thought on this: when I transitioned from Quicken to GnuCash, I just started fresh with GnuCash; on the "transition date", I used the current Quicken account balances, and then started from GnuCash. My theory was that if I really needed some information or needed to look up something, I could always run Quicken to see that data... and, as time passed, the Quicken data would be less relevant.
I know that there is a danger of losing the cost-basis information in investments, but I didn't have that much to be concerned about. Some of the more important ones with not so many transactions I entered from scratch with GnuCash. On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:22 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Not clear from that comment if you did so, but it's also a bad idea to > try to import everything in one go. > > While it seems like it would take more time, breaking the import into > chunks (some would recommend monthly, reconciling after each one) allows > you to train the import matcher, which in short order, greatly speeds up > the process and saves you having to do as much pre-processing. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 7/13/24 8:40 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: > > I started my GnuCash accounts by importing a massive amount of data from > Quicken to text files, after it ate the qxf files. > > I found that by creating an excel spreadsheet table with the columns > labeled (similar to what you are doing) I could easily keep trying until it > worked. > > Then saved it xls format first (allows easy redo if needed), then saved > as a CDF file (and rename to .csv if needed) for import > > It took a while, but was quite successful. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
