[lug] Wine, Quicken, etc. on Linux (partly OT)

[Bob Collins]

Moneydance 3.0 came with my SuSE 7.3.  I exported my Quicken accounts
and Imported them into Moneydance.  I didn't have any problems and even
though it is a double entry system, it was transparent to me.  

Since it is January it is an excellent time to give it a try.  I think
it might be easier than trying to figure out and set up an emulation for
Quicken.

-- 
   Regards, Bob Collins
Yesterday I was a dog.  Today I'm a dog.  Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh!  There's so little hope for advancement.
		-- Snoopy
Elyse Grasso wrote:
> 
> My laptop is a Linux-only box, with no Windows installation or partitions.
> I use Quicken (1998, I think), on a Windows machine at home, for financial
> stuff. (The laptop and Win2k box can communicate using samba and vnc).
> 
> I may be contracting in Minneapolis for 3  months or more, beginning at
> fairly short notice, and I would like to be able to keep my financial records
> updated and have them available. I don't think I have the time or energy to
> learn a new financial tool right now.
> 
> Can someone provide or point me to fairly detailed instructions on how to get
> Quicken installed and running on my laptop using WINE (assuming that is
> possible)?
> 
> Now the OT part: when I first used Quicken, years ago, I used their year-end
> mechanism to split the data, so that files would not be too big to back up
> easily on 5-inch floppies. Now that I use ZIP disks for backups instead of
> floppies I would like to pull the data back together. Has anyone done this?
> 
> I realize that whatever mechanism I use will require a fair amount of manual
> tweaking, and I will probably learn far more than I ever wanted to know about
> exporting and importing data in Quicken. I think that to avoid problems with
> transfers and duplicated records the safest way to deal with things will be
> to do date-limited exports from all of the databases (including my current
> one) and import them into a fresh database in sequence. Then compare with the
> old databases to make sure the ending balances look right for each account,
> and adjust as needed.
> 
> Since I will have the export files available in any case, I may do a parallel
> import of the pre-95 (or whenever) data into GNUcash to see what it looks
> like. (Pulling things back nearly on topic with a mighty heave.)
> 
> Are there any other Linux finance packages that I should investigate while
> I'm at it?  Anything that can match Quicken's functionality of 6 or 8 years
> ago would be sufficient: I use TurboTax, but I don't do automated imports of
> info from Quicken because my categories don't map well, and I don't use it
> for detailed tracking of investments.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Elyse
> 
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