I’ll try downloading 4.12 and see if goes better. Thanks 

> On Nov 20, 2022, at 4:59 PM, Sally Abrams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> My current problem is I can’t even find the program.  I haven’t even gotten 
> to transferring files because the program isn’t being found.  The set up 
> program says it’s there. But a search of my computer only comes up with the 
> setup link.  No icon. Not on start up menu. Not on list of programs.   If I 
> search for gnucash just the set up link comes up.  I can’t proceed at all if 
> I can’t find the actual program.   I’ve run the set up program 3 times now.  
> It looks liked it’s going well. The last 2 times it said it had to remove the 
> existing program first which it did but I have no idea where it found that 
> program.  So in theory the program is on my computer but I have no way to 
> locate it. 
> 
>> On Nov 20, 2022, at 4:23 PM, Ken Farley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know how complicated the data you are attempting to transfer is. I 
>> can tell you that I recently had access to an old computer with Quicken 
>> 2011. I used this to write out 10 years of .QIF files, one file for each 
>> year, data for that year only. I had it include everything that it would for 
>> me - accounts, all transactions, securities, etc. I seem to remember, when I 
>> first ditched the old program for Gnucash, that I had a bit of a hard time 
>> attempting to convert data. I eventually gave up and just started with an 
>> empty file and manually constructed the account structure, put in all the 
>> transactions for the last year or so, and ran both Gnucash and Quicken 
>> concurrently until I was able to switch over completely.
>> 
>> This last go at it, with the latest Gnucash (4.12) I was able to read all 
>> those .QIF files very easily. The only data troubles I had were the result 
>> of my carelessness all those years ago in making Quicken entries, and maybe 
>> some oddities in how Quicken handles stock splits. Easy stuff to fix. The 
>> only thing I never got to transfer over was the price database from Quicken. 
>> None of the historical prices seemed to get through. Again, probably my 
>> fault.
>> 
>> So, if you're not averse to updating to the latest version of Gnucash, I'd 
>> recommend it for this type of thing. The interface was rather nice, once I 
>> got used to it. Reading stuff in, checking it, fixing problems, was pretty 
>> straightforward to me.
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