Comments on: Replacing Microsoft Money, Part 3: GnuCash

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:02:00 +0000

I liked the program. I spent some time getting used to it, but once I had my accounts set up, I was ready to go. I genuinely liked the program.

I spent about 3 hours converting stuff over and then noticed as I sorted columns values in entries changed AND I would start getting weird dates like “29/12/5678″ for an entry that I know I entered for “12/29/09″.

Closed out of the program, reopened and had an error “parse file error” and was done. All my time is gone and frankly I cannot seem to find quality support.

My search continues.

By: TFB

TFB — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:28:19 +0000

nvsoar – After discovering I can use Money after Microsoft pulls the plug, I stopped looking for alternatives. See follow-up posts linked at the top. Someone says he will give me a copy of Quicken 2010. If that happens, I will give Quicken 2010 one more look.

By: nvsoar

nvsoar — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:15:56 +0000

For now I’ve settled on GnuCash as a Money replacement. Money Dance stopped working before I had all the data transferred so that evaluation was incomplete. Another candidate is Ace Money. Your comment?

By: Vasile

Vasile — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:57:51 +0000

Hi!

I also tried to use Gnucash, but it is extremely unstable for me. It kept crashing at different moments, but especially when importing MS Money data. Maybe it’s something on my computer, but I seriously doubt it since the rest of my apps rarely crash… I’m using the latest “stable” release