Thanks David. I was hoping to make the first option work but apparently it will not. I will keep working on the second option.
Tom sent from my Note 5 On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 6:30 PM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > There are two types of approach for you to consider and either will not > require Quicken once you have it working. > > 1. GnuCash does have a feature similar to the Quicken One Step Update > through the Online Actions menu, but it is tricky to set up and you need to > set up credentials which are easiest to obtain by reading the Logs from > previous Quicken activity. Some of us make this work and others give up > and switch to: > > 2. Your bank probably allows you to download transaction histories in > several different formats from your Internet online banking page, possibly > including CSV, QIF, and OFX. Sometimes they use different names. Of the > three, the OFX gives the best experience when importing into GnuCash. The > bank may call the OFX format the Quicken format. With this method you > download the data file, save it somewhere in a temporary folder, then > import it into GnuCash. > > Since I have not made number 1 work for me, I cannot help you try that. > > David Carlson > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:05 PM Kenneth Schneider < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Download you transactions from the bank in CSV format for import directly >> to GNUcash. I’ve found this works very well. You will need to go through >> the process of bayeshen (?) matching but with time it works. There is going >> to be a learning curve but it’s not that steep. >> >> Ken Schneider >> >> > On Feb 28, 2019, at 5:37 PM, Thomas Moffett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I'm not sure I follow you. The point of switching to gnucash is so that >> I >> > no longer need to download into Quicken because they're cutting off my >> > online access unless I upgrade. >> > >> > It sounds like you're suggesting that I download into Quicken and then >> > import from Quicken into gnucash. Or am I completely misunderstanding >> your >> > suggestion? >> > >> > Tom >> > >> > sent from my Note 5 >> > >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 5:20 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I would use the the import function of gnu cash after downloading the >> >> quicken information from your bank website using your username and >> >> password. I use this method for all my online banking services that >> are not >> >> gnucash friendly. >> >> >> >> Joseph St Denis >> >> >> >> Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM -0500, "Tom Moffett" < >> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Has anyone had success connecting to Old Line Bank? It is listed in >> the >> >>> database, but when I setup a user and attempt to retrieve a list of >> accounts >> >>> I get an error message that I have entered and incorrect username or >> >>> password. I questioned the bank's tech support folks and they had >> never >> >>> heard of GnuCash. They said they support Quicken (which I have been >> using >> >>> successfully). If I can't connect to this bank GnuCash won't work >> for me at >> >>> all. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Thanks in advance for any help. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Tom Moffett >> >>> >> >>> I hope to become the man my dog thinks I am. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> gnucash-user mailing [email protected] >> >>> 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 >> > [email protected] >> > 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 >> [email protected] >> 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. >> > > > -- > David Carlson > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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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