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. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
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