my Quicken will not create a .qif, what can I do?

[Charles Day]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Richard Talley <rich.talley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> These folks claim to be able to convert Quicken qdf files to the
> format of your choice:
>
>
> http://www.corruptedfilerepair.com/Recovery/Quicken-data-QDF-Data-Conversion-l2.asp
>
> DISCLAIMER: I do not work for this company nor have I ever used their
> services.
>
> They don't quote prices on their web site, just claim to be "quick and
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>
> Rich
>

If it turns out that you have to spend money to take off the Intuit
handcuffs, then is there perhaps a newer version of Quicken available for NZ
that *does* export QIF? Versions that are a few years old (but newer than
yours) might only cost $5. I also see that MS Money claims to be able to
import .qdf files, and export QIF files. So a $5 version of that might do
the trick, if available for NZ.

When I saw that MS Money can import QDF's, I wondered if I might be able to
find out the format of this file (once the password is removed). But I
searched and unfortunately couldn't find anything about it. If we knew the
format, it might be possible to write an importer for it at some point. But
the QDF format seems to change with every version of Quicken, so it might be
a moving target.

-Charles

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Victoria Spagnolo <v.spagnolo at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> >    I am using Microsoft Windows XP Professional V 2002 , Quicken
> Personal
> >    Plus Release R1 - New Zealand Edition
> >
> >    Charles Day wrote:
> >
> >      On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Victoria Spagnolo
> >
> >      <[1]v.spagnolo at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >      My version of Quicken will only export the addresses.  Is there
> >      anything
> >      available that will convert the .qdf into .qif?
> >
> >    You don't think you can convert the .qdf file, because it is
> encrypted.
> >    Only Quicken should be able to understand it. However, there may be
> >    other ways. Are you using a Mac, or Microsoft Windows? Which version
> of
> >    Quicken are you using?
> >
> >      Since I am not yet willing to abandon 10 years of data.... Any
> >      advice on
> >      how difficult it would be to write my own code to do this?  Are the
> >      definitions of the files available? where? etc etc
>