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[Jack Ostroff]

On 2/20/2016 4:36 PM, aga wrote:
> On 20/02/16 20:32, john jefferis wrote:
>> Many thanks for your prompt reply Allan.  Sadly Bank Genie has no output
>> facility at all.  I have queried this with the maker and they confirm
>> the only thing I can do is try to load from the back-up files, which as
>> I said before are all .CDX, .DBF and .FBT.
>>
>> It was indeed a bad move!  Windows 10 e-mail program is a load of
>> rubbish.  Edge is awful and also has no way of exporting favourite files
>> (I have managed to download a work around for that).  And now I find the
>> program I chose to replace the old MS Money, although highly
>> recommended, has swallowed up my bank data and won't spit it out again.
>>
>> Fortunately I still have windows 10 on my new laptop, so I will leave
>> Bank Genie on there as an archive file, and create a new start point for
>> kmymoney on Linux on this old laptop.
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>
> It's best to reply to the list so that others can be updated and given a
> chance to respond.
>
> What about these last two points?
>
> " It might be worthwhile looking at a linux program called wine, which
>    can be useful for running Windows programs on Linux, assuming
>    Bank Genie is a Windows app.
>
>    Generally, one installs wine, then use it to install Bank Genie,
>    which you then run as normal.
>    Finally, it might be worthwhile trying to open your backup files in a
>    text editor to see if anything useful shows."
>
> Allan
>
>>
>> On 20/02/16 18:59, aga wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20/02/16 15:49, john jefferis wrote:
>>>> I have just moved over to Linux Mint from Windows 10 and would like to
>>>> use kmymoney.  I am currently using Bank Genie, which does not run on
>>>> Linux and I have several years of data I need to move.  Bank Genie does
>>>> not have an export facility bt they suggested that if I did a backup to
>>>> a memory stick I could use that.
>>>>
>>>> The backup files are all .CDX, .DBF and .FBT.  Is there any way at all
>>>> of picking these up into kmymoney?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> John Jefferis
>>>>
>>>
>>> Bad move, choosing an app which locks you in.
>>>
>>> Leaving aside those backup formats. does Bank Genie have any output
>>> capability?   If so, in what format?
>>>
>>> It might be worthwhile looking at a linux program called wine, which
>>> can be useful for running Windows programs on Linux, assuming Bank Genie
>>> is a Windows app.
>>>
>>> Generally, one installs wine, then use it to install Bank Genie, which
>>> you then run as normal.
>>>
>>> Finally, it might be worthwhile trying to open your backup files in a
>>> text editor to see if anything useful shows.
>>>
>>> Allan

If you have linux running already, you can try "file file.cdx" at the 
command line.  That's the literal word "file" which is a command that 
tries to determine the type of file, followed by the name of the backup 
files you have.  It may tell you if one or all of the files are 
compressed by some known algorithm, or if they look like XML or some 
other known format.  If they are any sort of text file (even if 
compressed) there is more possibility of conversion and import into KMM 
than if they are a proprietary binary format.

Jack