On November 2, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Paul Kinzelman <p...@kinzelman.com> wrote:
>Perhaps your Quicken had no transfers between accounts? Nope. I had numerous accounts and thousands of transfers and transactions. I exported the entire file (using the then-available "export accounts, categories, and transactions", don't know if it's still available), and imported it all at once. I had to go through and correct many quicken oddities (transactions without categories, etc.), which I did in quicken, and re-exported again until it just worked. >I posted in this list and was told that's how it is because the transfer >appears in two places in the QIF file and figuring out that it's the >same transaction was not worth implementing in the import code. My experience was that the matcher was able to connect them up. David >I also tried editing the QIF code manually but finally gave up because >that merely moved the manual intervention, didn't eliminate them. >Best thing to do is be aware of the issue and just try it and see >what happens, then post your results here. > >On 11/2/2018 9:17 AM, D wrote: > >On November 2, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Paul Kinzelman <p...@kinzelman.com> wrote: > >>Yes, there should be an Export... QIF function in Quicken. >>I did that recently for a club account which was pretty straight-forward, >>no stocks, etc. >>The main problem I found was that when your Quicken database >>has a transfer from one account to the other, when you import >>the QIF file into Gnucash, all the transfers will be duplicated. >>You have to manually go through and >>delete one of the duplicated transactions for every transfer. > >Many years ago, I made the jump with a quicken file that had all sorts of >accounts. I had no problems with duplicates, although capital gains were a >challenge. > >David T. > >>On 11/2/2018 8:12 AM, David Carlson wrote: >>> If I recall correctly QDF format is a proprietary and encrypted format >>> owned by Intuit. The only way to extarct the data is to use the Guicken >>> program to open the file and then export to QIF format. Hang on to Quicken >>> until you have experimented with importing the QIF files into GnuCash to be >>> sure that you are getting satisfactory results. >>> >>> David C >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 4:17 AM Mark Schwomeyer via gnucash-user < >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >>> >>>> GreetingsWe have for years used Quicken, (1998 at least) (latest is 2008) >>>> they have went to a paid subscription service. (I think is overpriced)That >>>> said I have used Open Office for a while and thought to look for a open >>>> source financial program.The search for programs listed that GNUCASH would >>>> be compatible with .qdf >>>> GNUCASH was chosen and downloaded. I need to import the latest file >>>> (backup).The only choice was to import a .qif file. Our version of Quicken >>>> used .qdf as a working extension and as backup files.I have downloaded a >>>> conversion program attached to Mozilla, but the convert button only wants >>>> to convert pdf .doc >>>> compress, .jpg, .ppt. Maybe a couple others, but no .qdf.The program I >>>> downloaded, under further investigation, is a .pdf conversion program. [ >>>> fileconverter.org] Although it listed .qdf on the page. >>>> Does anyone know of a conversion for .qdf to .qif so I can use gnucash. >>>> Thanks Mark >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>>> ----- >>>> 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 >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> 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 >>If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>----- >>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 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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