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Re: Future of Quicken?

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mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) writes:

> But what should we longtime Quicken users (I started with version 1.5 in
> 1989) switch to?

Presumably you're in the same boat as me - over 20 years of transactions
that you'd like to keep.  At this point there simply is no way
whatsoever to import your complete history into anything, including
Intuit's own Windows products, which doesn't involve export as
QIF first.   And QIF has problems with certain types of transactions,
as well as losing security price histories.  I got varying results
importing my QIF file - in one case, it put my net worth at the
end into the trillions.  Niiiiiice.

So you have two choices, really.  Export the QIF, import it into
any of the several alternatives (maybe do it into several of them
at once and find out which one mangles your history the least),
and spend a heap of time fixing the resulting disaster.  Much of
it may be easily fixable by simply eliminating accounts you no
longer use, etc.

Alternatively, just choice a point in time, say the beginning
of 2011, and give up your history before then.  Start from scratch
with one of the alternatives and live with the loss of history.

Both alternatives stink.  I'm still putting off the decision.

-- 
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.

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