After all the reports I was pretty nervous about the conversion, but things went surprisingly well. The only thing I had to do during the conversion was to manually set the exchange rate for all forex transactions (which is surprising because it should have had sufficient information to determine the rates. But luckily I only had a couple dozen transactions. I did have one hang during the import, but after I killed the program and reran it, it went through fine.

It is taking a bit of getting used to, and I have had to set up the old accounts to ignore in reports, etc. However there are definitely some things I prefer about Quicken.

Both products have annoyingly non-standard UI’s, however I find Quicken’s a bit more intuitive (especially after turning on Classic menus). Also I prefer Quicken’s reports, with its simple improvements like being able to drill down on a Net Worth graph to get a breakdown of the assets. And the Money reconciliation used to drive me crazy by assuming that I only reconcile once a month, and setting the reconcile date to some future date rather than today. This is much better in Quicken. Of course on these things, it is all up to personal preference, and also how you use the product and which features are most important for you.

But there are two big losses in functionality for me. The first is the ability to get quotes for foreign investments, which Money handled fine (things like BHP.AX). The second is the automatic updating of foreign exchange rates. Without these things, it makes tracking your daily gains and losses a real pain. It is also frustrating that this has been requested for years and years, but Quicken has never added this simple functionality.

-Bruce

Has anyone asked Microsoft to turn MSmoney over to the support team, sell it for a $1. to them or something. Its been a good product, not perfect. But I keep hoping someone will convince MS to let them take the product and run with it. I don’t see a downside to Microsoft.

I have 15 trust, 4 businesses and several personal accounts all in separate MSMoney Logon on’s (Uncle Sam(IRS) has this thing about co mingled files) . Lots and lots of sub accounts in each MS Money file… but I would go back to paper before going back to quicken. Bad product, Bad support and the most attitude of any software company; much worse support than any MS product.

So the Gnu or Moneydance will both get a trial run to see how they do… I like features of both.

I will now look at Quicken as an alternative solution but it seems as if I will need to buy a version between 2004 and 2008 in order for the data to transfer properly and all 2008 versions are currently out of stock on Amazon!

Aaaaah – will I ever resolve this? )

Thanks anyway for all this info – much appreciated!

Jennifer