Re: What's the best way to get my quicken Windows data to Mac?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:09:58 -0500, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 12/18/2024 11:08 AM, Evan Platt wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:23:06 -0600, Arthur Conan Doyle
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Evan Platt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> File / Export / QXF on Windows. One of my cecking accounts is $600.
>>>> When I import it into Mac, it has an ending balance of $230,000.
>>>
>>>
>>> You might check the very first transaction (Opening Balance). I was having a
>>> problem for a while where that should have been zero, but was changed to some
>>> random number. The other thought is to run a data validate before you transfer
>>> the file. Make a backup first...
>> 
>> There is an opening balance - it's correct. ('ve had the account prior
>> to when there was data in quicken). So opening balance is an amount,
>> and is also in the Quicken when I transefer over to the Mac.
>
>Just a thought/idea, not specifically for this issue that I believe I 
>read in this NG: Enter each accounts opening balance as a *comment* in 
>each of the account registers so you can readily see if it has been 
>changed due to issues like this. (Might need to redo this if one does 
>any sort of year end copy or pruning).  I thought that was a kewl idea.

The opening balance migrated over and is correct...  :( 
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