In microsoft.public.money, Treadmill wrote:

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No, that was not what I had in mind. It was to keep Money from
turning the wrong thing into a mutual fund. But I guess it couldn't
hurt.

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I don't have the canonical list of standard, but stocks, bonds,
mutual funds, Money Market Funds for sure are standard. Quicken
allows you to define your own types; those would be custom.

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I have no special insight. What I would try if it were me is to see
if I could convert after clean boot or even booting into safe mode.
That should let a minimum of things that could be competing for
resources be running. I would let the conversion attempt run
overnight since this could run a long time. That has not been your
problem tho-- you are getting the fail.

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It may well be that Money will not be able to convert your file, but
I understand wanting to give it whatever edge might be available.

You tried the validate and super-validate?

If you do try the QIF thing, to avoid transfers from turning into
two separate transactions, it is important to import the QIFs into
the new file all at once.

This is done by selecting using Ctrl+<click> to highlight all of
the files you want including. Further, before doing the import,
the names of the investment cash accounts should be named something
alphanumerically higher than the investment transactions of the
account. So you could have "Merrill" and "Merrill Cash", but you
would not want "Merrill Inv" and "Merrill Cash". "_Merrill Inv"
and "Merrill Cash" would be good. So one way around this is to
export investment accounts to files who's name starts with an
underscore.

But I can understand that QIF process is not one that you would look
forward to undertaking.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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types relevant to the fact the conversion fails? If so, what do you mean by
custom types? Is that securities, or??? If I can fix the conversion by
tweaking the Quicken file, that's going to be a lot more likely than trying
to generate QIF files for approximately 50 accounts.

BTW the conversion says it ran out of memory or disk space although a task
monitor shows there was plenty of both. I've tried conversion since Money
2003, with no success, on a Quicken super validated file. Is this
conversion problem going to be addressed by Money at any point in the
future?

Thanks
TM

In microsoft.public.money, Don J wrote:

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Normally it is a pretty easy process. Sometimes people have to
resort to the QIF export and import, but not often.

Change all custom types to standard Quicken types. Any custom type
will be converted to type Mutual Fund by Money.

It is often suggested to do a Validate and a Super-validate in
Quicken before the conversion.
http://www.intuit.com/support/quicke.../win/6148.html seems to
imply that there could be a problem with that. So you might try
the conversion with and without doing that.

I've just installed Money 2004, and tried to convert my Quicken 2003
file to be used in Money. After trying to convert the file I get the
message:

"Your Quicken file could not be converted."

What's going on? How do I convert the file?

Don J