OK DOKE On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:00 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com > wrote:
> Edward, Please use reply all to include the maillist. > > You need to read the manual and understand how double entry bookkeeping > works. You do not really have hundreds of accounts that don't actually > exist. As you stated originally, you only have three bank accounts. All > the others would be what were called categories in Quicken but they are > Income and Expense accounts in GnuCash > > David C > > David C > > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Edward Ingram <edwardingram...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick response! >> I discovered that I could export my Quicken in .QIF and amazingly, >> gnucash had no problems whatsoever importing them. I'm a little >> intimidated as I begin to learn gnucash as I have hundreds of accounts that >> don't actually exist. I will need months of work to reduce them to the >> three registers that I actually need. >> >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:16 AM, David Carlson < >> david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The QDF format is one of the data formats that Quicken has used over the >>> years. It is proprietary and sufficiently encrypted to be impossible to >>> read with other programs. Before you abandon Quicken you need to use it to >>> open your file and export your data to QIF format which GnuCash can >>> import. Depending on how much data you have we usually suggest exporting >>> one account at a time. Good Luck. >>> >>> David C >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Edward Ingram < >>> edwardingram...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> My Quicken files are stored in .QDF format, not .QIF. (Quicken 2017) >>>> How can I import these? I do not wish to continue using quicken. >>>> I only have three bank accounts and no investments. I do not need the >>>> extras of Quicken. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ 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.
