I ran into the same problem in an earlier release of Quicken and never
switched because of the problem of conversion. You answered my question
as to whether Quicken 2002 'fixed' this problem. Quicken did have a
conversion utility that was supposed to convert an earlier version of
Money (Money 99 I believe). However, I never was able to get it to work.
Going through the QIF file conversion process is both tedious, and does
not do a complete conversion. Loan information, for example, does not
export. Note that earlier versions of Quicken would not handle transfers
between certain types of accounts that Money does just fine. In my case
this would result in making a whole bunch of manual corrections after
conversion. I decided that Quicken did not want my business and stayed
with Money. The only motivation for considering Quicken was that Money
has become extremely bloated and slow. With Money version 3 (a real old
one that we are still using), the data file is 1600 bytes. Money 2002
makes this file about 16MB in size! While Quicken also gained some
bloat, it is nowhere near as bad.
Peter
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I have been using (windows versions) of MS Money for years, but just got
a special deal on Quicken Deluxe 2002 and figured I would give it a try.
I saw in my Money 2001 program that Money has built-in converters for
Quicken files, so I naturally assumed that Quicken would do the same in
reverse.
However, try as I might, I can see no converting option in Quicken. The
only thing I can see to do is to export my Money files in .qif format
and then import them into Quicken, but the data export/import is not
going well and lots of my Money data is being corrupted or lost in the
transition, making it worthless.
Does anyone know how I can convert my Money (.mny) file to be used in
Quicken so I don't have to start all over again with Quicken. If I
cannot find a converter, then I fear my purchase of Quicken, cheap as it
was, will be for nothing.
Michael
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