Data Converter error message

I just attempted to use the Quicken data converter to convert a Money Plus file to Quicken 2008. I know that I am well over the 10,000 transactions so I tried to first convert the entire file and when I got an error (transaction.xml file not found) I then tried just the last 18 months. Same error. When I contacted Quicken support I was told that need to use qif files to import the data. He led me through the process of importing one account. Told me that it had to be a cash account. But even this import had many errors.

He apologized for the DC not working, but that they were trying to fix it.

During the import of Quicken function counts up lots of transactions prior to aborting with the error message listed above. Does anyone know if this is a catch all error message or a specific one. The files are all in the windows desktop directory.

details MS Money Plus - 12 years data Quicken 2008 OS - Vista

Art McClinton

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Art McClinton
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You could try running the converter "as Administrator" (with the small file as input), but I don't hold out much hope for success with that. It doesn't make sense that you'd get the same error with both attempts ... unless you had too many transactions in the last 18 months.

Here is a kb article on the converter, if you haven't already seen it.

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But you should definitely be able to take the QIF file route. All versions of Quicken can import QIF files into all account types ... but Intuit doesn't want too many people to know that, so they won't help you on that score. [You do have to do a bit of extra work to import QIF files in Quicken versions later than Q2004.]

But I don't know why you weren't told that you can get an intermediate version of Quicken (Q2004), for free (I'm pretty sure these are limited trial versions ... maybe good for 60 days or something like that), which can import QIF files with NO extra work. So you import your QIF files into Q2004, then let Q2009 convert the Q2004 Quicken data.

You'll probably still need to massage your Money data before trying to convert (no matter which approach to conversion you take); I don't recall all the limits, but I would make sure my account names and category names were less than 40 characters, and that I did not have any account names that were the same as category names.

I'd call Intuit back and ask for Q2004 (if you can't get the converter to work).

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John Pollard

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