[moneydance] Import from Quicken

[David Carlson]

A. McEwan wrote:
> I may be wrong, but it seems to me that doing a Save As not only creates a new backup copy, it also changes the default file to the Saved As version.
>    
>   Having had a few problems with file corruption, I have taken to making generation backups using this feature and the file name in the title bar is always the Saved As one when I fire it up again.
>    
>   This should allow you to "play" with different file versions.
>    
>   Kind regards,
>    
>   Alan McEwan
>
> William Morton <wjmwjm at asisna.com> wrote:
>   I imported about 1 year's worth of transactions from my Quicken database
> into Moneydance, and after a bit of tweaking I was finally able to 
> get the
> MD data to balance, and have been using it ever since.
>
> Now, for historical data, I'd sort of like to import the "whole" 
> Quicken file(s)
> which go back about 7 years. Then I could use that MD fileset to search
> for transactions of historical interest to me, which I used to do 
> with Quicken.
>
> But---I am terrified of "screwing up" my existing MD dataset--it has 
> all of
> my transactions for this year, is in balance, and is working great.
>
> When importing data is it possible to create a distinct and unique MD
> dataset, named differently from the "default" one? And then, 
> subsequently,
> to switch MD to use either one or the other on command?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill
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>   
I Agree with using the Save As option in the file menu.  I did that 
after each step of my import process.  As it turned out, I only needed 
to go back a couple of times, but that is enough justification.

Another idea- I put a shortcut to my primary file on my desktop.  One 
could have shortcuts to multiple files, anclick on the one that they 
want to use for this session.  Saves steps over using the file open command.

One more- In Windows the path is so long that I cannot see in the banner 
which file is open.  I found that I could see that information in 
Windows Task Manager

Dave