On Wednesday 29 December 2004 8:29 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I have been using MoneyDance for years, but my queries to their support email address have not been answered regarding being able to upgrade at their upgrade price. I was going to run a kmymoney test, but for some reason, when I click in import/QIF, no dialog box comes up. I'm currently running KDE 3.2.3. When I went to import a QIF file in GNU Cash (1.8.7), it failed with a parse error, "data for number or date does not match a known format".
In any case, I was curious to see if anyone had used both GNUCash and kmymoney and could render an opinion. Or, if someone had converted from MoneyDance to either.
-- Jerry Feldman
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Just my .02: I recently installed Kmymoney from SuSE 9.2 DVD and Gnucash from same. Tried to import .qif file into both. Both seemed to show Transfer transactions twice and took a lot of hand-work to get to resemble the Quicken registers the file(s) came from. I could never get Gnucash to stop posting old transfers between accounts twice, so never got balances to match with the previous. Probably the best thing would have been to start with clean accounts and assign "starting balances" equal to the last balance in the old accounts, not try to import old transactions. Kmymoney did much the same, but after going through each transaction I was able to get it to match the old quicken accounts. This mattered to me because I was trying to move away from using quicken under vmware, and wanted to keep account histories available, without having to go back to vmware/quicken to look up old transactions. I found Kmymoney ok to get used to and easy to edit transactions as I was learning how it wanted them inputted, but did not like having to use mouse to correct transaction dates, or posting dates if not posted on date of transaction, a minor annoyance. I had one major upset where my entire account file was replaced with an empty file, that is, all data disappeared and my only option seems to be to re-import and re-create from scratch, not a very inviting prospect. On the very positive side, I emailed the support email and received a response within a few hours from Thomas Baumgart, giving me some direction to try, and while they did not return my data (and no, I had not availed myself of the backup function yet...I am a slow learner in this regard) he did point me to some .qif import functions that have greately simplified re-importing, to wit, first time all dates were refused and assigned date of import. Took hours to correct all of those by hand. Import function allows to specify a different date format from the default, and re-import last night kept all dates. Much easier, will be far less hand correcting to do. Ok, so I have rambled on to .04. My reluctance to stray from vmware/quicken had been the ability to sync accounts with palm and do away with written register. Currently vmware seems not to be playing nice with USB ports, can't find my palm, so I am finding now that if nothing will sync with palm, then all applications are now open so can avoid having to "boot" into vmware to do checking account stuff. Richard