[moneydance] QMac->MD: loans become liabilities?

[Scott Zahn]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Edward Reid wrote:

> Second question: all my loans -- set up as loans in Quicken -- came across
> as liabilities, thus without any of the scheduled payments with computed
> interest etc. Loans will be partiularly painful to re-enter from scratch,
> especially the mortgage with its splits for PITI. Is there something I can
> do to get them imported as loans?

Loans always get imported as liabilities.  This one is kind of a pain, but 
again, you only have to deal with it once.  From what I remember, here's 
what I did: First and foremost, back up your .md file, just in case. 
Then go to File -> Export and export your data as XML.  Then open it with 
your favorite text editor (like notepad, not Word).  Find each Loan 
account and change the account type to L.  Then save the file and open 
moneydance.  Go to File -> Open and open the XML file you just edited.  I 
believe the loans will then show up as loans and you can go into those 
accounts and edit the details about them.  I think MD might say something 
about the loan being an old format loan.  I think I just hit "OK" and went 
on configuring each loan account.  Then when you save the file, it becomes 
your new data file.

-Scott