Money's not smart enough to know it can't do it and tell you so. But it
can't.

"MAYUR PATEL" <gita77[at]aol.com> wrote in message
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dates of 1900 and all transactions were missing except
for account names!!! tried 5 time sbefore i found this
message board

In microsoft.public.money, <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

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You could export a QIF file from each account in Quicken and import
into a new Money file.

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 QIF files containing 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.


http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;178830

It may be too much work, but you would end up with a really clean
Money file.

Scott, be aware that M2004 can only convert Q2003 and earlier. It's all to
do with timing of the product releases. Based on previous history we should
see M2005 sometime soon and that "ought" to convert Q2004.

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Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

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<anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Cal.

Does that mean I should wait for Money 2005 to try to
convert Quicken 2004 files?

I wonder what other options I might have.

Scott


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Thanks Steve.

I only downloaded the trial version because I thought
that it would be reasonable to try it before spending
the money for Money. :-)

Quicken isn't fixing my problems when I try to reconcile
so I can not even balance my monthly checking statement.
Very frustrating.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Scott


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In microsoft.public.money, Scott Schallock wrote:

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Money 2004 will not convert Quicken 2004 files.

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Scott,
You say you are fed up with Quicken. Are you really fed up enough to
switch to Microsoft Money? This is a key question that you need to answer
first. You will have a learning curve with Money. Are you prepared to deal with
it? The fact that you don't want to spend any money up front to purchase a real
Money CD tells me you are just frustrated with Quicken and are looking for
something better that won't cost too much money. Money is a good product for a
cost of net $20+ a year. I have had it since 1995 and update annually. I really
use it to manage my finances. I know very little about Quicken, but I assume it
does a decent job also. The conversion module in Money is helpful but, you will
need to fully understand how Money works and that will take time. I know I
haven't answered your question. Others probably will, but remember, if you make
the switch you will need to invest significant time in learning a new system.
Good luck. Steve

I just downloaded the 60 day trial version of MS Money
2004 onto my PC that uses XP. I used the conversion
wizard to convert my Quicken file. My account summaries
show up as if they're normal on Money after the
conversion, but when I open the checking account I get
transactions in the amount of $0.00 without descriptions
or anything else. The account summary is also zero
dollars.

I can't try out Money with this happening. But I'm fed up
with Quicken. I also don't want to pay for support for a
product that I haven't purchased. Can somebody please
show me how to make my transactions appear? Thanks.