[moneydance] I've had it with Quicken for Windows! Anysuggestionsfrom Quicken converts?

[Dal Pal (NSM)]

Thanks, Kevin! Nice to know I'm not alone!

I don't know how much data you had in Quicken (mine goes back to 1980) but
the Quicken folks told me probably the reason my file got corrupted was
because of the size. I did manage to knock a couple of MB off by deleting a
lot of the stock price history.

My corrupted Quicken files are almost 27 MB. Quicken's suggestion was to
copy the files with only 2-3 years of data; not an option. I did split it
out into 2000+ (21+ MB) and <2000 (almost 18 MB) just to see so splitting
out didn't help much.

I had considered MS Money but read that it has just as many problems as
Quicken... just a different variety so that was out for me. I just converted
my 27 MB Quicken to Moneydance... < 5 MB! Of course I've got some cleanup to
do but that won't add another 22 MB I'm sure! <g>

Hopefully I'll be able to make Moneydance dance with my money!

	Leslee

-----Original Message-----
From: moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com
[mailto:moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com]On Behalf Of Kevin &
Kirsten
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 7:47
To: 'General discussion related to Moneydance'
Subject: Re: [moneydance] I've had it with Quicken for Windows!
Anysuggestionsfrom Quicken converts?


I had a similar experience with Quicken, then switched to M$ Money, which
has to be the most bloated and slow program ever written. My data file
ballooned from 3MB to 25MB and everything took forever.

When I switched from M$ Money to Moneydance, I discovered I could import my
entire history including the old Quicken data that I saved prior to the
corruption. Everything was fast and my complete data file is 4.5MB. You can
export and import with XML so you can edit your data to the extreme and the
file format is not proprietary. And if I ever get a Mac or work with Linux,
it works on those platforms as well. So I'm really quite happy with
Moneydance.

There are a few nagging irritations on the Windows version like the column
resizing of the tables (easily fixed by manually resizing the window).

Although reports are not as polished as they could be, for the most part the
built-in reports are reasonable. The real power of Moneydance is that you
can write your own reports in a scripting language called Python (using a
plugin for Jython). Additionally you can write plugins in Java; I just
recently wrote a Find and Replace plugin that lets you fix up data that has
been messed up. So there really isn't any feature you can't implement
yourself if it is important to you and you have the time and inclination to
write it.

Hope this helps,

--Kevin


-----Original Message-----
From: moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com
[mailto:moneydance-info-bounces at moneydance.com] On Behalf Of Dal Pal (NSM)
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 10:36 PM
To: *LST-MoneyDance
Subject: [moneydance] I've had it with Quicken for Windows! Any
suggestionsfrom Quicken converts?

This is the 2nd time since 1/1/09 that Quicken has trashed my data file. I'm
in the process of cleaning up all the garbage that was added to and deleted
from MY data by Quicken and will be converting it to try on Moneydance.
Until I'm comfortable with Moneydance (or Quicken trashes my data again,
whichever comes first!), I will be running Moneydance AND Quicken. I
wondered if anyone has any suggestions on what to watch out for in
Moneydance, what doesn't work as well (I know reports are not the greatest),
etc. Any help greatly appreciated!
    Leslee
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