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When MS Money came out I switched over from Quicken and LOVED Money I was a heartbreak when MS discontinued it. Used the sunset edition for a while, but I felt I HAD to switch back to Quicken in order to use the automatic downloads. Wife & I have several credit cards and both joint and separate bank accounts. Too much manual data entry without the automatic downloads. Tried Money in Excel for a little while (also now discontinued), but that brings/brought down all transactions from all sources into a single Excel table. Parsing the table's data into separate accounts and then reconciling was too much work.
I'd love to try some alternative to Quicken. The annual subscription model is a blatant money grab for damned little in the way of improvement. If you don't pay it, they disable transaction downloads. You can't even download a qfx file from each bank to your PC and then import it. The key thing for me for any alternative would be having a file converter that could ACCURATELY read my many years of Quicken data.
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Duke Carey wrote: automatic downloads
I never fully understood how this was working : could you just get your transactions online from within Money directly ?
This is/was not possible with banks in France. I have always had to download data as .ofx files from my online banking accounts, and then import them in Money. I even wrote a VB Macro in Excel (stop throwing me stones, it is quick and efficient !!) to convert the files content before importing, so that I do not have to update too much manually, since the payees in the banks files are not always recognized automatically by Money - the bank adds transaction numbers or even dates in the "Name" field in their export...
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IIRC, Money used a different download or connection process than Quicken did and the sunset Money edition was limited or crippled in that regard. It's been a LONG time since I tried the sunset edition, and that description may be totally wrong. Is there a way to import a large Quicken file into the sunset edition? I'd be happy to try it again. Now that I'm retired I have more time to fiddle with it
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Duke Carey wrote: Is there a way to import a large Quicken file into the sunset edition?
Some says that renaming .qfx in .ofx should do the trick, but not sure about it. I cannot test it right now, not in front of my home computer.
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Yes, but I never set that up.
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Take a look at GnuCash, will do the import from Quicken.
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Looked at GnuCash several years ago and, IIRC, it doesn't do automatic downloads from banks & credit card issuers, does it?
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Not unless I've missed something. This does add a step, (downloading the QIX file and importing ) but I download pdfs and make card payments on the card site anyway, so it doesn't add much.
QIFs are a bit of a pain but the best you get from PayPal.
Having gotten used to it, it's way of working makes more sense to me than Quicken ( not the download, the account setup ( but that shift was 5 (?) years ago with a new and not well organized ( first try ) set of Quicken accounts for a non-profit my wife worked for - so 1, I don't remember it well, and 2, the Quicken setup hadn't been done as well as possible - it did seem better for her to work with as day to day office person, and worked sharing with the treasurer. ))
I _think_ I looked at KiCash (?) some time ago while trying to find something that covered what I wanted better. Didn't then see reason to change. YMMV
( The company I used to work for, tried PeachTree and JobBoss and still didn't find a solution that fit well for accounting / job tracking so I'm not surprised. )
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I started tracking my finances when I bought a new PC and it came with MS Money back in the early 2000s or perhaps late 90s. I loved it and was rather distressed when MS discontinued it. I looked for a replacement and landed on Quicken but I always felt it wasn't really worth the cost. I finally got fed up with the renewal costs and their incessant push to put my financial data in their cloud. About 7 years ago I switched to GnuCash. It had a bit of a learning curve but once I got used to it I much preferred it.
At the time it did not have bank/CC downloads but it does now. With some limitations. In the US, if your bank supports OFX Direct Connect it can be set up. There is also OFX Web Connect but that is an Intuit thing and GnuCash can't use it. There are help pages that tell how to do it and explain the limitations. Other nations have different banking standards, and of course, different formats at least some of which can also be set up to download into GnuCash.
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Since it now has downloads it may be worth giving it another try. Thanks for that info!
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I switched to Money when Quicken for NT couldn't handle NT 4.
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I wrote an iOS & macOS app that was partly inspired by MS Money: “Cashflows Pro”. It’s focused on the forecasting side, but pretty good.
Chris C.
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... or at least the first half hour of episode 1.
Poor dialog, poor acting, poor effects, poor characters, even poor ears on the elves - it doesn't seem to have much going for it at all. Too tedious to watch the rest of the first episode, I don't think I'll watch any more.
Any one watched and liked it?
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Yeah we watched the first episode and pretty much came to the same conclusion.
Not going to watch any more of them.
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Wow - it was advertise as the most expensive tv series ever... Can't they make some decent ears for that money?
It is sad as I'm a fun of Tolkien's work and planed to watch it...
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Well, tastes differ I suppose. I enjoyed it. It's not the greatest show I have ever watched but it was entertaining enough for me.
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We watched the first two episodes last night and quite enjoyed it. Visually appealing, filling in a bit of the lore in LOTR, it was alright.
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I have watched the first two episode and my assessment so far is that "it's ok".
What I wasn't too keen on was that the elves dialogue appeared to be in, what I would describe as, something attempting to mimick Shakespearean English - although that seemed to reduce in the second episode, or I became familiar with it.
I am not too keen on the 3 or more storyline threads running at the same time, I would rather they stick with one thread without too many cuts - maybe even dedicating each episode to a thread.
The cinematography is at least fairly good.
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I’m going to watch a few episodes and decide. What bugged me most was that episode one had no resemblance to anything from LOTR or the Silmarillion except for a few of the names.
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I bought an old version Excel 5.0 on Windows 3.1 from eBay.
Can it be running on Windows XP?
diligent hands rule....
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It should run on Windows XP through Windows 10, as long as you're using the 32 bit version of Windows. It won't install or run on any 64 bit version of Windows.
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thank you for the info!
I do have several old Dell laptops such D450 etc...
diligent hands rule....
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Quote: I do have several old Dell laptops such D450 etc...
Why not a VM? I've got old software that will never be updated, will not run on anything newer than Windows 7, IE9, .NET from 2009 and has activex dependencies, version specific SQL Express dependencies (and more). Getting all the specific software set up took a week p/time, mostly hunting for specific versions of things that don't exist anymore.
With a virtualbox VM, I simply run the image on whichever computer is most convenient. For example, last night I ran the image on a Linux laptop. In 10 years, that software will still be working because the image is effectively read-only and will never change.
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I happen to have several such old laptops...
diligent hands rule....
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