Thank, Liz, I will do that. I agree, time does have eroding effect on the memory of solutions we find for problems, particularly the knotty ones. I once put together a database for reconstructing the 1890 US census, the original records for which had been destroyed in a fire in Washington DC in 1921. To assemble those records, I used recordation of 1890-contemporary births, deaths, other vital records, land grant and other land records, cemetery records, newspaper articles, and 14 other data sources, which were housed in eight database tables. I then had to write a routine that would, when a query name was entered, browse all the tables, and present a list of all the possible found records for editing and possible addition of the queried individual into a “derived-census” record with those corroborating records as reference citations. That was back in 1989; had I not printed out all the code I wrote for that, I would probably never be able to reconstruct it.
Thanks for that advice I will work in small increments and will save versions as I go. Thanks again, - Byron ================ > On Mar 2, 2026, at 6:18 PM, Liz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 17:14:40 -0800 > Byron Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Derek, >> >> I had thought of going back a few years, for the sake of expediency, >> and then going further back as time allowed. It sounds as if I am >> better off going back to the first transactions I ultimately want in >> the GnuCash file and going forward from there. I can keep using >> Quicken until that process is complete and reconcile the new >> transactions last. >> >> Thanks, >> >> - Byron > > > Byron > All of this should be done in small quantities, none intended to be the > main import, while you document what works and what does not. > > You mention several times that you will go back to Quicken and > unreconcile everything. I do not think that this will achieve anything, > so please stop and allow all the offered options to sink in and then go > forward. > > I think the pertinent parts are > Create your chart of accounts (whether imported or manual) > Take a small amount of Quicken data (time wise) > Import this one account at once to take advantage of the > Bayesian matching tool > > Save every step, with a different name each time > I guess its about 30 years since I moved my data, and once it > is done we forget all the little tricks that helped. > > > Liz > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
