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I am considering porting some really old data from Quicken.
Based on what I've seen so far, this might be possible with importers (beangulp) reading from qif files.
Has anyone already tried this exercise? I might not start with this in the very near future but would like to prepare beforehand, if possible.
I believe I can still get the old Quicken to run in a VM and would like to get the data out before that becomes impossible for whatever reason.
Thanks for any tips.

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Someone may have a more sophisticated answer, but at least there is a Python-Library for QIF files.

https://quiffen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Given that this works, it should be possible to transform the old qif into something that Beancount can handle.

Uwe

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[Martin Blais]

I used to import from qif, it's doable. 

If be very surprised if nobody has had a go at this, search on GitHub.

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[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Damn, I am getting old... I had something written already...

https://www.mail-archive.com/bean...@googlegroups.com/msg02785.html

==> https://github.com/UweZiegenhagen/PyQIF-Parser

Tell me, if it works out for you or what I need to change.

Uwe

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[Martin Blais]

:-)

Happens to me too

It's gonna get worse with vibecoding...

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[Alen Šiljak]

:)) Thanks a lot, guys! It looks like I will resurrect this migration project pretty soon.

[fin]

another thing to consider is to just dump it all to CSV
or TSV files and back those up. As a suggestion if you do
go this way is to make sure to dump with as much precision
as possible.

plain text files are much easier to deal with compared
to proprietary formats.


fin