[No Thirst Software] Re: Quicken Windows QIF export and date error
On Dec 23, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Jaysen wrote: i finally broke down and decided to make myself cry. So I exported a quicken (windows) account to a qif file and decided to run the import. I get the date format error. I tried a few iterations, but can't figure out the right combo. I was a little paranoid to just start using regex in the formant field not knowing what it might do. Here are the specs. qicken home business 2007 on XP qif files show date line as D1/ 2' 6 Representative entry: D1/ 2' 6 U-44.07 T-44.07 CX PHome Depot MJan 2 7:39 Pm #065070 THE HOME DEPOT 1264 VICTOR NY LHousehold:Repair Hi Jaysen, I'll make sure MoneyWell can handle this date format in the 1.4.2 patch. I'm amazed that Quicken is breaking its own rules on formatting dates in QIF files. That short format doesn't even make sense to me at all. You should be able to test this patch within the next week. Peace, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups No Thirst Software User Forum group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[No Thirst Software] Re: Quicken Windows QIF export and date error
I am pretty comfy with perl and regex so I am all set for my personal needs. I would be more than happy to help you test the patch though. I did check my banks QIF download and it is the same. They do support [OQ]FX which is what I normally use. They do distinguish between pre-04 and current versions. Like I said, I am more than willing to help you with testing. Jaysen On Dec 24, 8:58 am, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com wrote: On Dec 23, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Jaysen wrote: i finally broke down and decided to make myself cry. So I exported a quicken (windows) account to a qif file and decided to run the import. I get the date format error. I tried a few iterations, but can't figure out the right combo. I was a little paranoid to just start using regex in the formant field not knowing what it might do. Here are the specs. qicken home business 2007 on XP qif files show date line as D1/ 2' 6 Representative entry: D1/ 2' 6 U-44.07 T-44.07 CX PHome Depot MJan 2 7:39 Pm #065070 THE HOME DEPOT 1264 VICTOR NY LHousehold:Repair Hi Jaysen, I'll make sure MoneyWell can handle this date format in the 1.4.2 patch. I'm amazed that Quicken is breaking its own rules on formatting dates in QIF files. That short format doesn't even make sense to me at all. You should be able to test this patch within the next week. Peace, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups No Thirst Software User Forum group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[No Thirst Software] Re: Savings
On Dec 23, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote: On 23 déc. 08, at 19:05, Chris Larson wrote: I'm curious about the way people go about handling their savings in MoneyWell. I wrote about this a while back on my blog: http://alan.petitepomme.net/blog/2008/04/tracking-savings-in-moneywell.html where I compare the savings as expense approach (which is the one Kevin uses) and the savings as money flow which I prefer (as I can see how much I have saved independently of where the money is). Thanks. That's a great summary of the options :) -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups No Thirst Software User Forum group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[No Thirst Software] Re: Quicken Windows QIF export and date error
On Dec 24, 2008, at 5:12 PM, jonphipps wrote: I have data in Win Quicken going back to 1990 and in my QIF exports it looks like the change in date format is to distinguish between 19xx and 20xx years, since the export only supports a 2-digit year -- 19xx years are formatted using m/d/yy instead of m/d' y. Hi Jon, I'm determined to figure out why Quicken for Windows insists on using that lame format for dates in QIF files. It's driving me crazy. I've decided that it's silly to go back that far with MW, but if you need someone to test with a very large volume of creaky, cranky old data (100,000 transactions) just let me know. Wow. I thought I had a ton with over 12,000 transactions in my file (of course that's only back to January 2004, I didn't want more than that). I'll let you know if I want MoneyWell abused. ;-) And just for the record, I've tried to get my data out of Quicken for several years now and Moneywell is the first program I've come across that actually is able to handle it (so far -- I'm only about 1/3 done, but I'm confident). Thanks. I was very concerned that MoneyWell could read my Quicken data so the QIF import has been refined several times over. Let me know if you find any glitches. Peace, Kevin Hoctor ke...@nothirst.com No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups No Thirst Software User Forum group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[No Thirst Software] Re: Car Loan
Mark, I also like the idea of putting the money toward the principle, but for different reasons. Whenever I've tried to do similar activity with my investments--I'll accumulate it in Savings throughout the year, and then buy my investments in one big lump, usually, I don't have as much in Savings as I had initially planned to invest, and this is because I am not really committed to the investment, and I don't have the discipline to follow through. With a large balance in my Savings, the temptation is strong to buy that new techno-toy, rather than continuing to save the money for investments. Buying the investments throughout the year, or in your case, paying off your car loan, you're really committed, and there's no going back. You have to make decisions with the money you have left over. Blair On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:00 PM, mhadja...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like the debt to be paid off a lot sooner. I could have the option of putting 50 dollars per month into a savings account and once i reach my loan payoff, I could just pay it in one check. However, I choose to pay the 50 per month towards principle payments to save on interest payments. If I can save 5-10 dollars per month in interest, over a 5 yr loan, that's extra money to do something else with it. Maybe I should average my monthly payments and make the average my 'spending plan' for the car payment? On Dec 23, 7:45 pm, Blair Watkinson thewatkins...@mac.com wrote: Mark, The only caveat I would add is that perhaps you shouldn't just plan your minimum payment as your Spending Plan amount. Rather, take a different approach--when do you want the debt paid off? What will you have to pay each month to make that happen? Can you make the sacrifices to achieve that goal? Balance your sacrifices and your debt pay-off goals, and prescribe that as the minimum amount in MoneyWell. I have found that when I don't plan for an expense (like Savings), and just put away what's left over, I don't have anything left over. Money, like other things in life, is a limited resource with many demands on it. If we're not deliberate about how to use it, we will find that we are using it in a way that we would not have planned had we taken a more deliberate approach (I really wanted to pay off my Car loan, but I didn't set the money aside, and instead went out to eat 25 out of 30 nights this month). Therefore, my spending plan needs to be a reflection of my priorities--if eliminating debt is a priority, plan for that, and don't do it as an after-thought. Now, you can still catch additional money on the back-side of the month as well--if you have money left over. But, I'd encourage you to deliberately plan an amount that meets your goals and is doable within your personal lifestyle, sacrifices, etc, when dealing with the limited commodity that money is. Blair On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Jaysen wrote: Budget your minimum payment including interest (the $200). You can still pay more, but it will need to come from your surplus. The idea with MoneyWell is to let you control expenses and show you where you are (sorry if that is slightly off Kevin). You can always spend more, but you will need to steal from Peter to pay Paul and MoneyWell will let you. Here is how. 1. Do your spending plan 2. Allocate income 3. Over spend in a bucket (over pay your loan) 4. Find a bucket that has extra allocation right now. 5. Flow money from that bucket into the over spent. Easiest way to so drag the source bucket to the destination bucket. 6. Indicate how much you are moving from bucket A to bucket B then hit add. Presto. Instant balancing of the flow. Hope that helps. Jaysen On Dec 23, 12:07 am, mhadja...@gmail.com mhadja...@gmail.com wrote: I was messing around with iBank and it seems to do what I want, however, I'm still willing to give MW a shot till the end of the week. What I want to know is my principle balance on the car. I don't need it down to the exact dollar, as this amount will change on a daily basis since that's how interest is calculated with this loan. However, I would like it to be more ballpark. So updating it once a month is sufficient. My starting balance is a -xx,xxx So what your saying is, when you make the payment, you move X dollars from your checking into your car loan bucket. Since I pay mine differently each month, I can't really budget for this, or can I? I have to make at least (eg, $350.00) - anything more goes towards principle like I said. So should I set my budget for 350, or should I make it lets say double this amount? Most likely I don't plan on making more than double payments. Then when you receive your next months statement, you update the interest and principle (doing a split transaction) ? I'll try that out as i'm doing something close to it, but mine seems to involve a few more
[No Thirst Software] Split Transaction in Reconcile Mode
Hi. I noticed what may be a bug. I reconcile my accounts by hand (opposed to downloading from a bank), reconciling each transaction by manually looking at my bank statement. I have a monthly payment to verizon for local phone and DSL totalling $65.68. The local phone is $40.69 and the DSL is $24.99. The payment to Verizon is made automatically each month by my bank. When it comes to Reconciling, I have to add the Verizon transaction to Moneywell because I didn't pay the amount manually. When I tried to add the transaction in Reconcile mode as a split transaction, Moneywell acts differently than when I add a split transaction in Moneywell's normal mode. When adding in Reconcile mode, it assigns the full amount of the transaction to the first entry and then assigns 0 dollars to the second entry. So for instance, it lists Local Phone as $65.68 and the DSL as $0. Is this a bug? Or should I not be adding split transactions in Reconcile mode? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups No Thirst Software User Forum group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
