On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 03:56:50PM -0600, Keith Hellman wrote: > 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.
Extracting information from quickbooks has always been an issue for me as it is the only reason I maintain a windows partition anymore... But for me, like you, it becomes less and less relevant as time goes on. That said, I think, as a small business user, extracting data from quickbooks is a pretty big deal and certainly would have made my life easier two years ago. And I still have some interest in having access to that old data, even if it was just as a "digest" with monthly or quarterly aggregated numbers. That said, I am not a developer, just a lurker here, but would be happy to test implementations, provide feedback and ideas, etc. A > > 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
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