[ale] MS Money Alternative (was error booting XP after dual boot install of Ubuntu 7.10)

[Daniel Howard]

Don't know about the rest summarized below, but I downloaded M$ Money 
trial version to my XP machine, loaded my dad's .MNY file, then exported 
it to QIF (strict export, not M$ version that supposedly keeps all info 
but is not generally usable by other apps) and GNUCash read it just 
fine, except for the fact that GNUCash took so much effort to categorize 
each item during import.

The funny part for all y'all (I so seldom get to use the plural form of 
y'all...) is that as we worked on it, it became clear that he really 
just wants to have an electronic checkbook, but doesn't want to (nor 
does his rural bank support yet) online checking, so now I'm thinking 
just a spreadsheet with appropriate columns would serve his needs.  But 
he did enjoy seeing how many Open Source alternatives there were and how 
one could get the data from a M$ application into something more 
generally usable, so it was a good exercise nonetheless.  Thanks to the 
group for all the great suggestions.

Daniel


 >Moneydance is a pretty good program. Not sure if it will import MS 
Money files, but it imported my Quicken stuff without any issues.

 > > http://www.moneydance.com/

 > > I've been using it for the past five years. It's so much easier to 
use than Gnucash. Very much designed for personal finances as opposed to 
business.

For my very simple needs, I've been happy with Homebank. It works well
 >> >>  on linux; you'll have to ask Aaron about the amiga version.
 >> >>
 >> >>  http://homebank.free.fr/ (linux, os x, amiga)
 >> >>  http://www.gnucash.org/ (linux, os x, windows)
 >> >>  http://www.grisbi.org/ (linux, windows)
 >> >>  http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ (linux only afaict)
 >> >>  http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/ (java)
 >> >>  http://jmoney.sourceforge.net/ (java)
 >> >>

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation