Data Converter error message

Posted by Art McClinton on June 22, 2009, 8:18 pm

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I just attempted to use the Quicken data converter to convert a Money Plus
file to
Quicken 2008. I know that I am well over the 10,000 transactions so I tried
to first convert the entire file and when I got an error (transaction.xml
file not found) I then tried just the last 18 months. Same error. When I
contacted Quicken support I was told that need to use qif files to import
the data. He led me through the process of importing one account. Told me
that it had to be a cash account. But even this import had many errors.

He apologized for the DC not working, but that they were trying to fix it.

During the import of Quicken function counts up lots of transactions prior
to aborting with the error message listed above. Does anyone know if this is
a catch all error message or a specific one. The files are all in the
windows desktop directory.

details
MS Money Plus - 12 years data
Quicken 2008
OS - Vista

Art McClinton

Posted by John Pollard on June 22, 2009, 10:09 pm

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Art McClinton wrote:

> I just attempted to use the Quicken data converter to convert a Money

> Plus file to

> Quicken 2008. I know that I am well over the 10,000 transactions so I

> tried to first convert the entire file and when I got an error

> (transaction.xml file not found) I then tried just the last 18

> months. Same error. When I contacted Quicken support I was told

> that need to use qif files to import the data. He led me through the

> process of importing one account. Told me that it had to be a cash

> account. But even this import had many errors.

> He apologized for the DC not working, but that they were trying to

> fix it.

> During the import of Quicken function counts up lots of transactions

> prior to aborting with the error message listed above. Does anyone

> know if this is a catch all error message or a specific one. The

> files are all in the windows desktop directory.

> details

> MS Money Plus - 12 years data

> Quicken 2008

> OS - Vista

> Art McClinton

You could try running the converter "as Administrator" (with the small
file as input), but I don't hold out much hope for success with that. It
doesn't make sense that you'd get the same error with both attempts ...
unless you had too many transactions in the last 18 months.

Here is a kb article on the converter, if you haven't already seen it.

https://quicken.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/quicken.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5521

But you should definitely be able to take the QIF file route. All
versions of Quicken can import QIF files into all account types ... but
Intuit doesn't want too many people to know that, so they won't help you
on that score. [You do have to do a bit of extra work to import QIF files
in Quicken versions later than Q2004.]

But I don't know why you weren't told that you can get an intermediate
version of Quicken (Q2004), for free (I'm pretty sure these are limited
trial versions ... maybe good for 60 days or something like that), which
can import QIF files with NO extra work. So you import your QIF files
into Q2004, then let Q2009 convert the Q2004 Quicken data.

You'll probably still need to massage your Money data before trying to
convert (no matter which approach to conversion you take); I don't recall
all the limits, but I would make sure my account names and category names
were less than 40 characters, and that I did not have any account names
that were the same as category names.

I'd call Intuit back and ask for Q2004 (if you can't get the converter to
work).

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John Pollard