[Kmymoney] Hello - new and looking for help and advice migrating from MsMoney to KMM

[aga]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:37:09 +1000
Peter Cave <cave at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Hello
> My name is Peter and am relatively unfamiliar with lists so hope not
> to make too many mistakes here.
> 
> I am electronics hardware technical but not very good with intracies
> of software.
> 
> I have been trying for at least 6 months to migrate all programs in
> Win XP to Linux Mint 9 or 10 and in particular MS Money 2006 small
> business to any version of KMM available to me on Mint.
> 
> Mint 9 allows me to download KMM 1.0.4 
> 
> Mint 10 gives me KMM 4.5.0
> 
> I have my accounts - bank and credit card all ok on MS Money.
> 
> I can update these files with downloaded bank info in QIF format with
> no problem at all.
> 
> I can export/save/reimport each file completely/successfully in QIF
> format in MsMoney.
> 
> Ms Money gives the option of exporting in "Loose QIF" format to avoid
> truncating names/descriptions etc.
> 
> My frustration is that when I import a QIF file into either of the
> above KMM versions, KMM seems to decide that all files belong to the
> asset group and all are checking accounts.
> 
> Credit card accounts are imported as assets / checking accounts.
> 
> I am unable to change them.
> 
> Even after deleting all transactions in some of these accounts I
> cannot delete the account in some cases - not all.
> 
> Even if I make a new credit card (liability) account I cannot import
> QIF files directly to it.
> 
> If I move the transactions then I get duplicates without choice.
> 
> Most of the bank accounts import correctly as assets.
> 
> I have read some of the archives and this problem is alluded to by
> Martin on Fri 29 July 2011 - something to do with leading zeros and a
> bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/625993
> 
> A patch was mentioned but I do not know if this solves the same
> problem and my knowledge is insufficient to know how to apply such
> a patch if I had it.    
> 
> Sorry for such a long explanation - just trying to be fairly explicit
> as to what is happening.
> 
> My thanks in advance to anyone who can shed light on what I may be
> doing wrong before I lose all my greying hair.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter 
> AMD dual core 
> 2GB ram
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Hi Peter and welcome

It is always advisable to use the latest release available to you.  Two
possibilities here.  Going to Mint 11.04 will get you v4.5.3-2.  Even
the, v4.6 has just today been released, and is likely to be made
available by Claydoh on his PPA, so it's worth keeping an eye on that.

Now to your import problems.  No problems with the length of your
description - the more detail, the better.

It sounds like you are importing a number of accounts in one file, and
in theory that works.  But, much depends on the structure of your
file.  Is there any possibility of providing a copy direct to me, or an
extract that shows the problem?  It makes sense to edit private data,
but without changing the structure, if that's possible.

Allan