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by gotaquestion 1516 days ago
GnuCash only imports ancient quicken formats. The new Quicken formats (since about 2015) are not importable. I'd love to, but I can't restart a 32-year quicken file, so they got me. Plus I think the UI for GnuCash isn't as smooth as quicken (w.r.t. categories and accounts, they all blend together in a weird way, IMHO).
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I was going to say that maybe getting off a product owned by Intuit would be enough motivation but apparently Quicken has not been owned by Intuit since 2016! I had the same reaction as I did when I discovered that RAM pickups are no longer owned by Dodge.
> I discovered that RAM pickups are no longer owned by Dodge.

That one got me awhile back. Ram was spun off in 2010, but they're both owned by Stellantis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Trucks

Dodge hasn’t been an independent entity since 1928 and Dodge and RAM are still part of Stellantis (the thing that Chrysler morphed into). RAM truck VINs still to this day use the same Dodge manufacturing code and RAM trucks supply chain didn’t change, so this just seems like an internal rebranding. It’s not like Mazda or Volvo with Ford or something.
> I'd love to, but I can't restart a 32-year quicken file, so they got me.

GnuCash is open source and this is hacker news

They don’t have some sort of exportable file format that both quicken and gnucash can understand?

Which, of course, doesn’t help with the UI issues.

You can export QXF and QMTF (and CSV) but the online QXF converters seem dubious... (not QFX, that's different). Although you have inspired me to spend some time examining the formats.