Hi Steve,
After I saw Kalpesh's advice, it got me curious about those old versions
of Quicken, and I decided to run a few tests. If you did get a Windows
instance up and running, you wouldn't need to worry about which version
of Windows it was. For my testing here on a current Windows 11 system,
I was able to successfully install and run both Quicken 2014 and Quicken
2007.
The bad news though is Quicken Windows can't open a Quicken Mac (.qdfm)
file. So I don't think doing that will help in your case. As David
mentioned already, you need Quicken (specifically a Mac version of it)
to open that .qdfm file so that you can export it in one of those
generic formats.
A piece of good news for you though is that newer versions of Quicken
(post-2007) can most likely open your .qdfm file. I tested and
confirmed that Quicken 2014 can open a Quicken 2007 file. At least it
worked for me on Windows. So even if you don't have a Mac system with
Quicken 2007 anymore, I think if you can find someone with a Mac system
that has *any* version of Quicken, there's a good chance it will be able
to read your old .qdfm file -- which would then allow you to export it
as a .QIF file.
Hope this helps,
Tom
On 09/29/2026 07:25 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
Your only and, one and only one real option is run a Windows instance in a
VirtualBox (Vagarant can provide a lot of plumbing if you know how) where you can
install Quicken 2006 and export it out as a QIF format (OFX and CSV formats for
export are not available in Quicken) to import into GNC. Even that is not strait
forward as semantics of two system differ in many ways. I would venture to think
that you would probably need either Windows XP or Windows 7 as a compatible OS to
possibly run that old of a Quicken version. You should be able to get a copy of it
from the archive machine (https://archive.org/search?query=quicken&tab=all).
I remember writing up good hints to minimize pain to this group many years ago
from my experience of migrating over two decades of data from Quicken 2017 into
GNC inn 2020 (and I am still fixing up some of that data).
-----Original Message-----
From: David T.<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 2:32 AM
To:[email protected]; Stephen Lee Phillips<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Download assistance sought...
I'm pretty sure you won't find any success getting at that data from outside
the Quicken universe. Your only option, I believe, is to open the data file in
Quicken and export your data in a generic format like OFX, QIF, or csv and then
importing that into another accounting program.
David T.
On September 29, 2026 7:16:35 AM GMT+05:30, Stephen Lee
Phillips<[email protected]> wrote:
Trying to find conversion for .qdfm (Quicken Data for Mac) file from
2007 and was directed to GnuCash, however I've been unsuccessful in
finding, downloading, and extracting/opening the correct iteration to
run on Intel Mac OS Sonoma 14.8.9: Any suggestions would be most
gratefully appreciated...
Thank you!
Steve
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