Posted by: Administrator
on November 09, 2005 04:05 PM
Although it's been a year since a I really used Moneydance, I was able to pull down transactions as well as pay them through Moneydance.
The unfortunate thing is that I had to sadly migrate BACK to Quicken, because of a Quicken issue.
When you do a year-end archiving and use the "new" file (the one without last years transactions), quicken doesn't summarize and collapse some financial data -- mainly stock/mutual fund purchases . It just "hides" them.
When you export Quicken to a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.QIF file for importing to Moneydance, all those hidden transactions come with it, making a mess in some of one's accounts. My thought is that these transactions are not "CLEARED" in Quicken (my choice up till now) and that clearing those transactions may get rid of the "mess". I'm working to eliminate that, but it was disturbing and is the reason I went back to Quicken 2003 for the time being. The only complication was re-establishing a password -- Moneydance opened the online account by asking me to change the banking account password. Quicken still had the old one. I had to make the account not online, then re-set it up to get a new password
If you don't track that type of detail in Quicken, I would suggest trying Moneydance -- plus it is available for both Linux and Windows.
Also, Quicken 2002-2004 IS supported quite well (almost flawlessly, and without the password re-set issue) by Crossover Office.
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Posted by: Administrator on November 09, 2005 04:05 PMThe unfortunate thing is that I had to sadly migrate BACK to Quicken, because of a Quicken issue.
When you do a year-end archiving and use the "new" file (the one without last years transactions), quicken doesn't summarize and collapse some financial data -- mainly stock/mutual fund purchases . It just "hides" them.
When you export Quicken to a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.QIF file for importing to Moneydance, all those hidden transactions come with it, making a mess in some of one's accounts. My thought is that these transactions are not "CLEARED" in Quicken (my choice up till now) and that clearing those transactions may get rid of the "mess". I'm working to eliminate that, but it was disturbing and is the reason I went back to Quicken 2003 for the time being. The only complication was re-establishing a password -- Moneydance opened the online account by asking me to change the banking account password. Quicken still had the old one. I had to make the account not online, then re-set it up to get a new password
If you don't track that type of detail in Quicken, I would suggest trying Moneydance -- plus it is available for both Linux and Windows.
Also, Quicken 2002-2004 IS supported quite well (almost flawlessly, and without the password re-set issue) by Crossover Office.
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