[opensuse-kde] KMyMoney and QIF, how to import without mangling?
I know this isn't quite the place for support questions, but I'm at my wits end to find a solution. I need to migrate a large amount of financial data from Quicken2007 to KMyMoney. I would use GNUcash as a go-between except it always crashes at the "tip of the day". Any help would be greatly appreciated, and blogged about in detail so the info will be available to others. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Riverside, California ***Looking for C++ Mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:23:35AM -0800, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I know this isn't quite the place for support questions,
and this is guaranteed not the answer you are looking for
but I'm at my wits end to find a solution. I need to migrate a large amount of financial data from Quicken2007 to KMyMoney.
i faced this years ago as i was bouncing between proprietary spreadsheet solutions, and came to realize i was putting eggs into baskets that were bound to change and bound to cause me hardship when they did at the time i was using microsoft excel -- asking it to save as CSV and proceding on my own was the best thing i ever did for my data i keep the data now as good old fashioned ascii text, which any program, of any decade, can read -- my support and display programs are a mix of bash, perl, tcl, python, whatever moved me as the best solution at the time i was writing them -- i can back up the data onto multiple formats, and read it with any application
I would use GNUcash as a go-between except it always crashes at the "tip of the day". Any help would be greatly appreciated, and blogged about in detail so the info will be available to others.
if you think you might like to pursue such an approach i will post a link to my site -- sc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
Creative solutions are always welcome. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Riverside, California ***Looking for C++ Mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 16:58, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> wrote:
Creative solutions are always welcome.
Just a thought... if you can't get it to import, you could try Crossover Office or Wine. Last I checked, Quicken 2007 worked reasonably well in Crossover Office. It would buy you some buffer time while you sort out exoort and import issues. What have you tried? What error messages if any are you bumpung into? How is your data being mangled? Is it personal financial data or company? If company, have you looked at Quasar? http://www.linuxcanada.com/ (I think someone mentioned this one in another recent thread - it's a pretty good Linux/QT based accounting app) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 16:58, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> wrote:
Creative solutions are always welcome.
Just a thought... if you can't get it to import, you could try Crossover Office or Wine. Last I checked, Quicken 2007 worked reasonably well in Crossover Office. It would buy you some buffer time while you sort out exoort and import issues.
What have you tried? What error messages if any are you bumpung into? How is your data being mangled? Is it personal financial data or company? If company, have you looked at Quasar? http://www.linuxcanada.com/ (I think someone mentioned this one in another recent thread - it's a pretty good Linux/QT based accounting app)
C. Personal. We don't have the Windows version, but the Mac of Quicken. Seems it fails to import some transactions, and thus throws the final balance off. All
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 08:33:24 AM C wrote: things considered, really not that bad. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Ind. Repairs and Consulting **Looking for a C++ etc. mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 21:52, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> wrote:
What have you tried? What error messages if any are you bumpung into? How is your data being mangled? Is it personal financial data or company? If company, have you looked at Quasar? http://www.linuxcanada.com/ (I think someone mentioned this one in another recent thread - it's a pretty good Linux/QT based accounting app)
Personal. We don't have the Windows version, but the Mac of Quicken. Seems it fails to import some transactions, and thus throws the final balance off. All things considered, really not that bad.
I haven't done a Quicken to KMyMoney import in years, but when I did try (so long ago, I forget what version I was migrating) it didn't do a nice job of it - that was when I looked at using Moneydance as my personal accounting package in Linux. I paid for a license, started using it in Windows, and then migrated it all to Linux at some point several years ago... at least 8 years I think. Maybe this would be the solution you need here. It is a commercial package (reasonably priced), but you can download and try it for free - so you can test to see if it'll cleanly import your QIF file. The nice thing is, it's cross platform (Java based), so you can start with it on the Mac, and then if it all works, migrating Moneydance to Linux is very simple... Install Moneydance, copy the data files and you're done. I don't know how easy/hard it is to migrate from Moneydance to KMyMoney though. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 09:27:52 AM C wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 21:52, Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> wrote:
What have you tried? What error messages if any are you bumpung into? How is your data being mangled? Is it personal financial data or company? If company, have you looked at Quasar? http://www.linuxcanada.com/ (I think someone mentioned this one in another recent thread - it's a pretty good Linux/QT based accounting app)
Personal. We don't have the Windows version, but the Mac of Quicken. Seems it fails to import some transactions, and thus throws the final balance off. All things considered, really not that bad.
I haven't done a Quicken to KMyMoney import in years, but when I did try (so long ago, I forget what version I was migrating) it didn't do a nice job of it - that was when I looked at using Moneydance as my personal accounting package in Linux. I paid for a license, started using it in Windows, and then migrated it all to Linux at some point several years ago... at least 8 years I think.
Maybe this would be the solution you need here. It is a commercial package (reasonably priced), but you can download and try it for free - so you can test to see if it'll cleanly import your QIF file. The nice thing is, it's cross platform (Java based), so you can start with it on the Mac, and then if it all works, migrating Moneydance to Linux is very simple... Install Moneydance, copy the data files and you're done.
I don't know how easy/hard it is to migrate from Moneydance to KMyMoney though.
C. The main accounts we were able to correct rather quickly, and its smaller ones still showing discrepancies. Frankly, I'm allergic to proprietary solutions in most cases. As for using it on the Mac, that isn't an option either since the hardware is failing one component every month and a half. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Ind. Repairs and Consulting **Looking for a C++ etc. mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 12:30:18 Roger Luedecke wrote:
The main accounts we were able to correct rather quickly, and its smaller ones still showing discrepancies. Frankly, I'm allergic to proprietary solutions in most cases. As for using it on the Mac, that isn't an option either since the hardware is failing one component every month and a half.
Did you ask on kmymoney user lists about the import? AFAIK they are helpful. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
On 08/12/11 10:45, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 12:30:18 Roger Luedecke wrote:
The main accounts we were able to correct rather quickly, and its smaller ones still showing discrepancies. Frankly, I'm allergic to proprietary solutions in most cases. As for using it on the Mac, that isn't an option either since the hardware is failing one component every month and a half.
Did you ask on kmymoney user lists about the import? AFAIK they are helpful.
Will
I agree. The list you want is kmymoney@kde.org Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop Distro: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) Uptime: 06:00am up 14 days 15:36, 5 users, load average: 0.29, 0.24, 0.22 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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