Steve,
I think Kalpesh's advice is on the right track here. But I think
there's a simpler way of getting to where you want to go. (Well, maybe
not simpler. There's a bunch of steps involved.) My suggestion would be
to let Quicken provide you with the means of converting that data.
First (and don't get scared off just yet) it *will* involve you
purchasing a Quicken subscription. *But* you should be able to
ultimately accomplish all this on the cheap -- i.e., for FREE! Bear
with me here while I explain.
If you go to the Quicken website (not a third-party, that's important)
and purchase a subscription from Quicken for "Quicken Classic (Windows
and Mac)" (that specific product name is also important), you'll get the
current Quicken desktop software. Once you get that program loaded on
your Mac computer, as soon as you go to start it for the first time
(after logging in with your new Quicken ID), the program should ask if
you have an existing file you want to open. That's where you specify
your Quicken 2007 .qdfm file. I would avoid any requests or options to
cloud sync your data.
Once you've opened the .qdfm file on your Mac computer with the latest
Quicken Classic desktop software, don't try to change anything. Just
immediately go and export the data (all accounts and categories) to a
.qxf file. Be sure to save that .qxf file somewhere where you can
access it from a Windows PC.
Next, go to your Windows PC (or borrow one if needed), and go back again
to the Quicken website, this time on the Windows PC. Login to your
Quicken account (using the same Quicken ID you just created earlier on
the Mac). And download and install the same Quicken Classic software
that you previously installed on the Mac. Your subscription should
allow multiple installations of the software. Once the Quicken software
is installed on the Windows PC, select the option to create a new empty
Quicken file. Once you've got the new empty Quicken file open, then go
and import the .qxf file that you previously created on the Mac.
Now that you've imported the .qxf file to create a Quicken database on
the Windows PC, you can finally export the data from there (on the
Windows PC) into a .qif file. And be sure to save it someplace safe.
That's the file that you need to get the data into Gnucash.
So you're finally done. Uh, not quite. Remember what I said about
doing this for free. Well, this is where you go back and contact
Quicken customer support. You tell them you tried their software and
didn't like it. And so, you'd like to take advantage of their "30-day
Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee". You should be able to get a full
refund of all your money.
Anyway, I think this is probably the most straightforward way of getting
the .qdfm file converted for Gnucash.
Hope this helps,
Tom
On 09/30/2026 04:04 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
In that case MacOS is the only way in Virtual Box instead of Windows
OS it sounds like. Two possible routes instead of one – 1) Older MacOS
running an older Quicken version in Virtual Box and then export it out
as QIF, or 2) let newer version of Quicken on MacOS upgrade that
version into modern format, and then either export to QIF directly
from there or bring it over to Windows and export. Note that Windows
has been using QDF proprietary format to store Quicken data.
I found number of Vagrant boxes for older MacOS that can run in
Virtual Box at
https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover?query=macos.
In either case, though, you will end up with export-import cycle which
is the best route.
*From:*Tom Route36 <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:08 AM
*To:* 'Stephen Lee Phillips' <[email protected]>
*Cc:* [email protected]; Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]>;
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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
<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]> <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 2:32 AM
To:[email protected]; Stephen Lee Phillips<[email protected]>
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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]> <mailto:[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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