Hello all: I've been a gnucash user for several years, but I've never posted to the devlist before (I did post to gnucash-users back in April of 2004, see attached).
In 2004, I fiddled around with converting my previous QuickBooks data to gnucash. I used software by DataBlox (http://www.datablox.com/qb/qboview.htm) coupled with a TCL script (http://www.ids.net/~gregan/arzoosw/download.html) for the primary data extraction, then wrote some python scripts to convert the data into qif files. None of this really panned out. It didn't seem to be an issue with the data export, but rather my inability at guile and limitations of the QIF format. As time passed, it seemed much less important to preserve the financial data from QuickBooks. When I returned to graduate school, the project was shelved indefinetly. OK, what's the point? I'd like to know if there is an interest in being able to do a QuickBooks->gnucash conversion. If so, and there is a gnucash developer interested in pursuing the topic, I'd be happy to donate the copy of the DataBlox software I purchased. If anyone is interested, please contact me off list (I don't subscribe, and I doubt most the developers are interested in the pursuent discussion). Cheers, -- Keith Hellman #include <disclaimer.h> [EMAIL PROTECTED] from disclaimer import standard public key @ pgp.mit.edu B5354B76 "We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local structure in the source language." -- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974
Hello all: I feel I'm close to having a Quickbooks to GnuCash conversion process completed (I'll post the recipe if I can make it work all the way). Right now I have a python script that is reading IIF format and generating QIF (see attached files). When I import the QIF into GnuCash (1.8.8 debian sarge), in the next druid page after QIF file selection, it says: The QIF file you have loaded appears to have transactions for just one account, but the file does not specify a name for that account. The default choice for the attached files is 'input'. The rest of the import proceeds without incidence. When it is finished I have a file with an 'input' account, when I would have thought I would have a '1st Bank Checking' account. Do I need to separate my big QIF file into separate files for all accounts that occur in the 'L' field? Or do I specify an specific account with a '!Account' record entry in the QIF? Or (most likely) have I missed some important aspect of QIF generation or GNUcash importing? I suspect either of the first two answers are as much work to implement in my python script, I'm just looking for a little direction from the people in the know. TIA PS: please cross-reply to me, as I have not subscribed to the lists (yet). -- Keith Hellman #include <disclaimer.h> [EMAIL PROTECTED] from disclaimer import standard public key @ www.mcprogramming.com "Mod me down, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." -- Gothmolly http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=103730&cid=8837481
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