On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:13 PM Cricket Onebit <cricketbeauti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhere I saw that most people find QIF works better, and that QIF is > similar to CSV. If my version of Quicken won't export to QIF, I'll try CSV. > There are too many variations of CSV for me to trust it entirely. > The QIF import USED to be the only way to accurately get "both sides" of every transaction. The ability to get every part of a transaction in a CSV is a new feature with the 3.x series. I haven't tried it. You WILL almost certainly see some strangeness in the imported data because Quicken doesn't strictly enforce balanced transactions as GnuCash does. When you're just dealing with a few years, you may find it easy to go back and fix the odd strange transactions in Quicken, and start the import over from scratch. > I might make one huge QIF, import it and save as GC, then make another QIF > just of recent transactions for actual use. That's my recommendation. > That's a lot of work, though. I > asked a few days about chunking it by date. They suggested doing each > account separately. If I understand correctly, transfers between accounts > might show up as two transactions otherwise. I guess Quicken exports the > transaction twice, once in each direction. GC's matcher only checks against > transactions it's already saved. > I might be wrong, but I believe the advantage of the QIF import is that Quicken and GnuCash are pretty good about conveying the matching parts of the transaction. I don't remember it being a problem at all, once you got over the process of creating all the accounts (on the GnuCash side). It seems like I started with the default GnuCash accounts, and worked from a printout of my Quicken accounts and categories, and created them in GnuCash beforehand. That made the transfer happen much faster because I wasn't creating new accounts as I went along. You might also try exporting just however many years of data from a single bank account at a time until you have them all. Unless I'm mis-remembering, I think the only places you'll have duplicate transactions will be those places where you transferred money BETWEEN the bank accounts. Good luck! > ----- > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
