Comments on: Microsoft Money to GnuCash http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/23/moving-from-microsoft-money-to-gnucash/ free software, free culture, free association Fri, 16 May 2008 03:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/23/moving-from-microsoft-money-to-gnucash/#comment-3400 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:54:34 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/23/moving-from-microsoft-money-to-gnucash/#comment-3400 Hi, Graeme. It happens that this morning I'm mulling over whether to start using GnuCash or KMyMoney starting today. I've decided I may not migrate my old data over to whatever app I start using. I'll just start with a new program in this new year, and do parallel entry with MS Money for a while (which I'm still running in WinXP under <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="nofollow">VirtualBox</a>). I can dump data from MS Money in to a spreadsheet with spending by payee/category/subcategory by year and that should be enough to satisfy my historical curiosity. I'm sure that GnuCash is a solid program and if I invested the time it would work for me, but I'm struggling with the interface and the organization. So I'm also looking at KMyMoney, which is organized more like MS Money or Quicken. It looks like it has a healthy community of developers and users around it, so I expect it will be around for a while. I'm not sure if I have the time or ambition to learn and enter data into both programs for a while to figure out which one works best for me, so I'm dithering over the choice. Hi, Graeme. It happens that this morning I’m mulling over whether to start using GnuCash or KMyMoney starting today.

I’ve decided I may not migrate my old data over to whatever app I start using. I’ll just start with a new program in this new year, and do parallel entry with MS Money for a while (which I’m still running in WinXP under VirtualBox).

I can dump data from MS Money in to a spreadsheet with spending by payee/category/subcategory by year and that should be enough to satisfy my historical curiosity.

I’m sure that GnuCash is a solid program and if I invested the time it would work for me, but I’m struggling with the interface and the organization.

So I’m also looking at KMyMoney, which is organized more like MS Money or Quicken. It looks like it has a healthy community of developers and users around it, so I expect it will be around for a while.

I’m not sure if I have the time or ambition to learn and enter data into both programs for a while to figure out which one works best for me, so I’m dithering over the choice.

]]> by: mm http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/23/moving-from-microsoft-money-to-gnucash/#comment-3397 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:28:07 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/23/moving-from-microsoft-money-to-gnucash/#comment-3397 Hi Scott, I'll be interested to hear in how you've managed with the migration from MS Money to Gnucash in the past 12 months. I'm still on MS Money, even though I've had my MacBook for 18 months. I'm about to test-drive Gnucash, but I wasn't intending on transferring the 10 years of data I had - I just thought that would be too hard. How did you get on? Regards, Graeme http://monkeymemoirs.com Hi Scott, I’ll be interested to hear in how you’ve managed with the migration from MS Money to Gnucash in the past 12 months.

I’m still on MS Money, even though I’ve had my MacBook for 18 months. I’m about to test-drive Gnucash, but I wasn’t intending on transferring the 10 years of data I had - I just thought that would be too hard.

How did you get on?

Regards, Graeme

http://monkeymemoirs.com

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