[moneydance] "Moving" account info to another file

[Edward Reid]

At 22:44 06/03/06 -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
>You will find that QIF files are merely text
>files that you can edit in any standard text editor

The other possibility to explore would be to export both files to XML, use 
a text editor the extract the parts relevant to the account needing to be 
moved, insert that XML in the other file, and open it in MD.

In theory this should work without a hitch. The hard part will be figuring 
out what pieces need to be moved -- it's almost certainly more than one 
section. I've only looked very briefly at the MD XML files -- they look to 
be pretty straightforward, but XML is wordy and it'll take some study to 
find all the right parts.

The big problem with QIF, in general, is that transactions are one-sided. 
However, MD is pretty good about making a two-sided transaction when it 
can't find an "other side" transaction to match, as is the case where the 
"other side" is a category. So in this simple case the results should be fine.

Neither XML nor QIF will be fun to edit, but AFAIK either method should work.

Edward
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