"Tom Simpson" <tom[at]nospam.com> wrote in message
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Since export is primarily used for conversion, why would Microsoft
want to invest dollars in making it easier for you to abandon their
product?
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Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Well, you might be able to cobble something up with Excel, MoneyLink and
some of the existing Excel to QIF tools. I suspect that the extra clicks for
one-at-a-time exports will pale in comparison even to the effort associated
with trying to cobble something up from these pieces.

I suspect the reason nobody has done it is that there is such little call to
export all accounts to QIF because doing so has such low utility to most
people--even in the total migration scenario it leaves LOTS of data behind,
as previously discussed. And few users ever attempt the total migration. The
secondary limiting factor, of course, is how little Microsoft has been
willing to expose to how few outsiders about interfaces to get at Money
internals.

"Tom Simpson" <tom[at]nospam.com> wrote in message
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I know, I know... Just seems like someone might have come up with some
automated way or script that would show all the accounts, let you pick
which ones you wanted, then do the export(s) (like a script that would
'push the buttons' automatically).

Or something like that, would be a whole lot easier.
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Dick Watson wrote:

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It's kinda like saying "I'm going to build a house on this vacant lot. Why
do I have to drive the nails one at a time?"

One at a time. Into separate files by definition. And Export won't export
Loan Accounts or account/category/payee/classification details information.

Somehow given all of the issues associated with export (see above for some)
this particular issue hardly seems like the biggest hurdle to migrating out
of Money.

"Tom Simpson" <tom[at]nospam.com> wrote in message
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I would like to export every one of my accounts (including old ones) in
MS Money 2007. Since I now have a Mac, I was looking into the
possibility of switching to something like MoneyDance which requires
that I export everything to OFX - or just for the sake of backup.
However, Money only lets you export ONE ACCOUNT AT A TIME!

Is there any utility anywhere that can export everything (maybe into
separate files per account)? Or has someone written a script? Or are we
resigned to having to do it one account at a time? I have a lot of
accounts, considering all the 'old' ones I have closed.

Thanks.

Tom
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