Hi, Welcome to GnuCash!
I found the user group called "MYM users" on Facebook and the forum on https://www.starkeysoftware.com/MYM/. I recall that MYM was very nice when I used it, and I think it was rather rigidly double-entry, so it should import into GnuCash rather easily if it can make good QIF exports. Since it basically is limited to one or two years' data in a data file, you would probably want to convert one file at a time and keep them separate rather than concatenating them into a "huge" single data file. While GnuCash doesn't have the DOS limits, from personal experience I can tell you that it still gets slow with a decade long data file. I have some old MYM data files on some old hard drive if I ever have time to fire it up, or really old floppies but I can't find them right now. GnuCash is rigidly double-entry but it can keep basic investment records as well as checkbook records. It is limited as a budgeting tool, tho. It does have a bit of a learning curve, but I like it better than the others that I have tried. David Carlson On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:21 AM Dennis Powless <dpowless...@pobox.com> wrote: > I can say the migration process wasn't easy, but wasn't too hard. I was > able to do it and got it up and running with all my old quicken data. I > can't remember the number of years of quicken data, maybe 5-10 years or > more. I've probably been with gnucash for about 10 years maybe. > > After all is said and done, I'd NEVER go back to quicken. Gnucash has done > everything I need (I don't have complicated stocks or investments). I only > use it for my personal finances, not a business, so can't comment on that. > > > I'm not familiar with MYM12, so don't know about that migration. > > Gnucash is a great program and open source, the devs work very hard on > keeping it up to date and are making improvements all the time. > > d > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:04 PM David T. via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > I won't comment on whether the migration process has become simpler over > > the years, as I haven't done it in about as long. > > > > There has been a huge amount of discussion over the years on the question > > of migration from Quicken (usually tied either to the beginning of a new > > calendar year, or the imposition of a new fee structure by Intuit). > > > > A search of the mailing list archives will turn these up. > > > > Additionally, the wiki includes a summary of many of the points that have > > been raised on the topic. > > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Importing.2FExporting_Data > > > > I can't comment on the ease of migration from the other application, but > I > > can say that the strict enforcement of double entry accounting in gnucash > > causes most Quicken refugees some discomfort. People with complicated > stock > > holdings also encounter special challenges typically. > > > > David > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 6:54, Jean-David Beyer via gnucash-user< > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: On 7/31/19 5:01 PM, Clint Chaplin > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for, well, some assurance here. > > > > > > How many of you migrated to GnuCash from another financial product? If > > you > > > did, what did you migrate from? How much data did you have to migrate? > > > And would you do it again knowing what you know now? > > > > > > > I ran Quicken for a few years, but I could not stand Windows 95 (current > > at the time), so I switched to Red Hat Linux 5 in about mid 1998. A > > little later, I started using GnuCash. It could presumably convert from > > Quicken, but it made such a mess of mine that I just dropped all the old > > data and started afresh. > > > > I suppose in the decade or more since than, Gnucash has improved the > > behavior of the conversions. > > > > > > -- > > .~. 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