Hi Tom,
Your guess is correct. The script used the exported .txt file to
identify each transaction that would have truncated memos in the QIF,
then located the truncated transaction in the QIF file. To limit the
accounts you need to export, scan the QIF file to identify the accounts
with at least one memo value at the limit.
Unfortunately, I have not been locate the script. I'm not even sure it
was something I would have saved.
Regards,
Sherlock
On 8/27/25 11:38 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
Hi Sherlock,
I'm guessing that once you produced the Transaction Reports in Quicken
you then had to export each of them to Excel Compatible Format (i.e. Tab
Delimited Export Files .txt). I could probably do that, even though it
would take quite a while; since I'd have to do it account by account
(and there are 20+ years worth of them). And since I can't really be
sure which transactions have truncated memos, I'd pretty much have to
assume all of them have problems.
But where I'd really run into trouble is trying to figure out a script
to correct the truncated memos in the QIF files -- which I'd probably
also need to do account by account. Do you still have any such example
script files that I could study as a guide in how to setup such scripts?
I've never really tackled anything this complex before.
Tom
On 8/27/2025 10:53 PM, Sherlock wrote:
Hi Tom,
In September 2022, I successfully migrated our 25 year old Quicken
data file to GnuCash 4.12 on Windows 10. To work around Quicken's QIF
export memo truncation issue, I recall running queries in Quicken to
produce transaction report files with the impacted transactions and
then using a script to correct the truncated memos in the QIF file.
Regards,
Sherlock
On 8/27/25 8:46 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
Hi all,
This is more of a Quicken question than a GnuCash question; but I'm
wondering if anyone here has run into a similar issue with
transferring data from Quicken to GnuCash -- and (maybe) figured out
a way around it.
When I transfer transactions from Quicken 2016 into a QIF file for
importing into GnuCash, I'm finding that all the Quicken Memo fields
get truncated down to 30 characters regardless of how many characters
are actually in those Memo fields. For reference, note that Quicken
2016 supports Memo fields up to 64 characters. And GnuCash v5.12
supports Memo fields of well over 100 characters.
What I'm wondering or asking here is this. Has anyone else run into
this issue? And does anyone have a suggestion for how it might be
possible to export the full 64-character Memo fields from Quicken?
(FYI, we're talking over 20 years of Quicken data here.) Any help or
ideas would be appreciated.
Tom
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