Exporting a QIF File

Nov 10, 2005 2 Replies

I have Quicken Deluxe 2003 and would like to use my data on my new macintosh. To do so I have to export the quicken data to a qif file. When I go throught the steps that are supposed to work, nothing happens. No file is created. I sent quicken an e-mail and they suggested I call a number and talk to a specialist since they supposedly have a conversion service available. Unfortunately I can't even start talking without giving them a credit card number and 24.95 to find out how much it will cost to convert my data. I'm hoping that perhaps someone has a suggestion as to what may be causing my data not to export. I tried to export it to both a hard disk and to a usb flash drive. it failed in both cases. later I tried it again and it told me that it failed because I had removed the flash drive, which was true. So the program is apparently seeing something before refusing to write the data.



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated especially since I've already bought the quicken for mac software and don't relish the prospect of entering several thousand transactions by hand.



dick


A couple of thoughts, though nothing obvious suggests itself.

1.) The problem is with the export process. Possibly you did something wrong or perhaps the process can't handle your file (too many records?). You didn't spell out the steps you took, so perhaps you did miss something. And how many transactions do you have? 2.) The problem is with the data. Perhaps some data corruption is interfering. You could try Validating/super-validating your data. You could also try renaming your QDATA.QPH file (price history). That file can get very large and it can get corrupted and validate virtually never finds corruption in the price history file. Renaming is sort of a first step to see if either corruption in the price history, or just too much price history is part of the problem: if either is true, some other decisions would need to be made. If renaming changes nothing, you rename it back and forget the price history angle.

FYI, I finally solved the problem. I tried everything I could think of including validating, super-validating, and year-end-copy to try and break out enough of the file to create the QIF file. Finally in desperation, I installed Q2K3 on my mac under virtual pc and restored a backup of the data that I had made this morning in hopes of transferring the data. Then I exported the data and created the qif file with no problem. I'm clueless as to why it worked. Maybe I should join Intuit's technical support team :)

dick

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