Hi Doug

I don't know all the details of the converter, but that could all be
correct. I converted Money 2004 Deluxe and as I said...painful, but nothing
to the extremes of when I converted from Quicken to Money.

Bob
"Doug Dubowski" <ddubowski[at]rogers.com> wrote in message
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I have done a conversion from Money 2003 to Quicken 2005 XG both Canadian
versions. I am currently running them both. The conversion utility that is
provided on quicken.com does not work with the Canadian versions of the
programs. In order to import the QIF files you must first ensure that
category names are no longer than 15 characters, and you must also convert
the date format from mmddyear to ddmmyear. If you don't, you lose any
transactions that produce an illegal date if the month and day are reversed.
I made the adjustment by importing the qif file into Word and then Excel to
make the necessary adjustments. It was not an easy process, but it can be
done.

"Doug Dubowski" wrote:

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Arge,

The only data converion file I could find on the Quicken web site is for MS
Money 2003 or greater. These later versions permitted the export of a file
in a non-defined (not QIF) format that could then be imported through the
data conversion utility into Quicken. MS Money 2000 deluxe doesn't have
this feature, unfortunately, hence the need to update the MS Money 2000 file
to a later version that would then permit me to make the conversion. To
update the MS Money 2000 file requires the newer version to be a Cdn version
of Money. I have tried to convert my MS Money 2000 file by installing the
available US trial versions of Money 2004 and 2005. In both cases, they
will not convert the MS 2000 file because of incompatible version "states".

DGD
"Arge" <bigbc37(nospam)[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi Doug

I don't know even being a Canadian Version has anything to do with it or
not, but there is an excellent file converter on the Quicken Web Site. Not
only did it convert my money file (and yes it wasn't totally clean), but it
also cleaned up the corruption on my MsMoney file. That is something
Microsoft has not been able to do and I have used their salvage tools close
to 1000 times in the past couple years.

Bob
"Doug Dubowski" <ddubowski[at]rogers.com> wrote in message
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Downloaded both MS Money 2004 and 2005 and both refused to convert the MS
Money 2000 Deluxe version because of incompatible versions. Will have to
see if there was a Canadian trial version available in the past.

DGD

"Chris Cowles" <NoSpam[at]For.me> wrote in message
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If not download a trial, maybe buy one cheap on eBay? If it's cheap enough
you won't mind essentially throwing it away. Consider it a conversion
utility.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Doug Dubowski" <ddubowski[at]rogers.com> wrote in message
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I took the plunge and purchased Quicken XG 2005. Microsoft hasn't released
a deluxe version for the Canadian market in over five years. However, I
have found it nigh impossible to convert my MS Money 2000 Deluxe files to
Quicken. I tried QIF only to find dates disappearing and having the closing
balance for the same account in both programs almost $6000 different. Last
hope is to download a trial version of MS Money that will accept Cdn$ and
terminology (RRSPs, RESPS etc) and convert my old MS Money 2000 to a newer
MS version and then convert those files to Quicken, who appear to have file
conversion utilities for MS Money 2003 and beyond. Any idea as to where I
can download a Canadian trial verion of MS money 2003 or newer? Thanks,


DGD