Is there a way to add archived transactions?

Ira wrote in news:xPWdnShb5bHTiwTWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

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It is possible to merge two or more Quicken data files.

I may be a good idea to create a New Quicken file then Import the various pieces.

In Quicken Deluxe 2010, there is a File > Import and File > Export.

Import has a Web Connect (.QXF) and Export has Quicken Transfer Format (.QXF).

What you have to do is load the first Quicken file, let Quicken convert if necessary. Then Export that file to a .QXF transfer file.

Open the Quicken file that you want to add to. Import the file you just exported.

Repeat as necessary.

The fatal flaw in your suggestion is that a Web Connect file has a "QFX" extension, not a "QXF" extension. The two files are not alike in any way.

So, while you can export a QXF file from Quicken, the only Quicken product I know of that can import that file is Quicken Essentials for the Mac.

And there is no option to in Quicken for Windows to export a Web Connect (a QFX) file.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:hnbihm$6b1$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Then If you have the option of using a QIF for export and import. QIF will work.

That's the only method I know of. Every version of Quicken can export and import QIF files, even though newer Quicken versions make importing QIF files more difficult..

Along with that, as was brought out in an earlier thread, you could set up a dummy cash account and then import the QIF file to that account (since Q2010 doesn't allow QIF imports to every account). Then move them to the account of your choice.

Good point.

[That will work only as long as every transaction being imported is "New" to the ultimate destination account; which it probably is, if you are importing from an archive.]

And, I should have added; the import to a cash account followed by a Move to the desired account, will not work for investment account transactions.

The earlier thread also told how to add a few header records to define the account that the QIF file was being imported into. I have been using that for my DinersClub and Home Depot accounts which only have QIF files. Thus it is possible to import without going through Cash.