Exporting accounts from one qdf and importing them into another

What version of Q are you running ?

In my Quicken 2006 - there is still an Export to QIF menu command that allows you to specify accounts, dates, types of data, etc and export to a QIF format.....

--> File --> Export --> QIF file (only selection available) --> export menu

Is this still possible in later versions ?

The advice you got was essentially correct, though there were probably some assumptions involved that may not apply to you.

The only method available to accomplish your goal (other than a purely manual effort) is the export/import of QIF files. I see at least three drawbacks to using QIF files for your purpose.

1.) There is no surgical way to export specific transactions. The only selections one can make for exporting transactions are: one specific account or all accounts; and a date range. 2.) When importing QIF files into newer versions of Quicken, there is no longer an "Accept transactions into register" window. This means that the "Status" ("New" or "Match") of all imported transactions is determined by Quicken, and may not be correct and the transactions will all be accepted without you having any control of the process. While you can import non-investment account transactions into a dummy (cash, asset, or liability) account, investigate them in that dummy account, and move them from that dummy account to the appropriate destination account ... you still can not rely on getting a correct "Status" ... and there is no practical way to handle "match" transactions. 3.) As indicated in #2, you can not import investment transactions into anything other than a Quicken investment account. That requires some extra manual pre-processing of the QIF file to allow it to be imported into the investment account. And again, all the transactions will be given whatever Status Quicken decides and accepted automatically.

If all the transactions you are interested in should have a "Status" of "New" and are non-investment account transactions; importing into the dummy Quicken account and moving the transactions should work.

That still leaves the problem of how to get only the desired transactions "exported" to the QIF file.