I spent much of this weekend fighting with this software, troubleshooting all the various errors (mostly using Process Monitor - the best friend of anyone fighting with crappy, cryptic software) and finally came up with a solution that is (a) successful (unlike every report I’ve been able to find on the Internet) and (b) repeatable. Unfortunately, as much as I would’ve figured that Quicken would want to make it dead-easy to convert MS Money data to the Quicken format, it turns out that not only is their conversion tool buggy and not well documented, but the conversion process is pretty damned fragile (and requires a lossy and manual process of exporting into an XML format). If you have any feedback, please let me know or open an issue on GitHub.After years of fighting and losing the battle to use Microsoft Money to stay on top of my finances, and after reading that Microsoft Money has only 1/4 of the market share that Quicken has (even after all these years of Microsoft trying to take over), I finally gave in (with a really sweet $33 deal via ) to sense and decided to switch my financial management to Quicken. There are other free open source tools for money (like PocketSense and hleofxquotes, which can also do other things), but I needed to create something even easier to use. I understand many people will hesitate to download a raw exe from the internet by some random stranger, and I don't have a good solution to that (you can thank Microsoft). It's a Win32 GUI application because I wanted it to be extremely easy to use (hence I have to distribute it as an EXE) and also run on older versions of Windows. Or you can compile and run it manually with Visual Studio 2019. This utility converts those QFX files into an OFX format that Money should hopefully be able to import. They now offer QFX (Quicken) downloads, which are very similar, but don't work all the time. Posting here in case anyone else will find it useful.Ī lot of banks stopped offering OFX downloads of transactions. I've created a free and open source utility, ConvertToOFX, to help with importing data using Quicken files. The problem for me is importing data into Money without manually typing every transaction by hand. No way am I switching to Quicken or GnuCash. This post is for the all the people, who like me, still use Microsoft Money to manage your finances.
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