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QIF--export/import

Running Quicken Deluxe 2001, R3 under Windows ME.

In order to fix a Quicken file problem I exported all transactions in a credit card account to a qif file. The exported file looked fine. I imported the file to a new account and the imported transaction were not all correct. Transactions that had a blank memo field on export had a non-blank memo field on import. None of the categories in the exported qif file had a class designation. Several categories in the new account into which the qif file was imported had a class appended.

The only need I have of the qif export/import capability is to repair/beautify my quicken file. I would like to export, edit the exported file, and import. I have no need for online downloading and importing transactions.

Obviously my Quicken 2001 Deluxe has a problem with qif import/export. Is that the experience of others?

Which later versions of Quicken have a reliable import/export capability and reliable find/replace, recategorize capabilities and also run under Windows ME? I'd like to upgrade to one of the versions, but which one?

Thanks.

Tom

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MrTom
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MrTom wrote in news:sa-dnYAJVqmxBqvanZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Older Quicken versions sometimes had problems with file corruption that were not that easy to correct. Using copies of the file sets, I would suggest to preform a validate (and if that does not work, a supervalidate) on the fileset with the problem AND on an apparently healthy backup dating from before that. Once data is compromised somw way, it will usually be garbage in, garbage out, and you'll have to fix it manually or go back to a good backup.

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Han

Thanks for your response, Han. The problem that prompted my original post was solved by editing the exported qif file so every transaction had a nonblank memo field, importing that file to a new account, and recategorizing all those imported transaction that erroneously had a class associated with them. There were a few other steps, much experimentation, and numerous validates/super validates along the way.

I was hoping that some version of Quicken that runs on Windows ME provided a reliable export/import capability that qif import/export is supposed to provide with 2001.

Tom

Han wrote: > Older Quicken versions sometimes had problems with file corruption that > were not that easy to correct. Using copies of the file sets, I would > suggest to preform a validate (and if that does not work, a > supervalidate) on the fileset with the problem AND on an apparently > healthy backup dating from before that. Once data is compromised somw > way, it will usually be garbage in, garbage out, and you'll have to fix > it manually or go back to a good backup. >

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MrTom

I had no problems with Q2001 import. Here was my recent experience:

  1. Clean reinstall of WinXP computer due to issues
  2. Uh oh, lost my Q2004 Premier disk
  3. Installed Q2008 trial version
  4. export bank/credit card accounts individually to QIF
  5. uninstalled Q2008 trial version
  6. installed Q2001 Deluxe disk that I still had around
  7. import to Q2001 with no issues

Maybe my transactions weren't complicated enough (goes back to Y2000). Categories were not mixed up in any way and Q08 export did not create any blank memo fields. I will upgrade Quicken someday when Windows 7 sp1 comes out (no Vista for me). Thumbs up to Q2008's print transactions to PDF feature.

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xela

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