I finished the app, tested it on some old QIF files, and then went for broke. It is that side of the transaction which is being ignored by the app. The receiving account, if you like, is just sitting there and money is dropped in on it. Why? Think of a transfer as being an active withdrawal from one account to a passive deposit in another. One is a “from” transfer and the other is a “to” transfer in some sense. Moneyspire makes no attempt to match up those duplicate transfer transactions and so, after importing all the QIF files, the balances calculated and displayed by Moneyspire are seriously wrong: every transfer appears as two transactions in a given account. Because the QIF files are exported by Money per account that transfer (and all similar ones) appear in both QIF files for those accounts. Imagine a transfer from a checking account to a credit card: the transaction is paying off (some of) the outstanding debt on the credit card. This time though I decided to try and figure out a solution. The QIF files imported OK, but again all transfers between accounts were still duplicated. I installed the latest version (it has had some welcome changes since that blog post I mentioned above, let me tell you) and then tried to import exported QIF data from Money. I did manage to fix it (hello, RegEdit), but I was faced with a dilemma: continue clutching at straws with Money, or move to another app? I don’t know if this is because I now have 23 years’ worth of data in it, or it’s still “phoning home” in some sense (although I understand this has been removed form the Sunset edition), but it’s painful.Ī couple or so weeks ago, it suddenly got worse: for some ungodly reason, the Money importer program would no longer automatically open QFX files from my financial institutions. Indeed, what I tend to do now is open it up every morning, and then check emails or whatever, until that initial start-up phase is complete. Second, the start-up time for Money is now horrendous for me – at least 5 minutes before it’s usable. First is the obvious one: it was completely and utterly discontinued in 2010 and it’s only a matter of time before something happens to the OS and Money no longer works (indeed, there’s been a couple of issues over the years that have required patches). Let me make clear though, although it works fine the issue with Money is two-fold for me. Nevertheless, Moneyspire improved in the interim and I paid for the upgrades when they appeared, hoping that basic functionality would get better. I abandoned the move and continued using Money. However, even that had some issues, of which one was insurmountable at the time: transfers between accounts were imported twice, making the end result of setting up your accounts in Moneyspire a complete and utter mess. One app which almost made the grade was Moneyspire.
MONEYSPIRE 2020 DOES NOT REMEMBER PASSWORD SERIES
Waaaay back when, in early 2017, I published a small series ( one, two) on replacements for Microsoft Money. Fixing the import from MS Money to Moneyspire
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