Die, Windows! Die! Die!

[murstein]

So, last weekend, while I was fixing the Wi-Fi on my mother's laptop, I got too productive, and deleted a program that was nothing but an extra hassle. Now, after running the Windows uninstall program wizard, I learned that this software was mightier than its uninstall wizard.

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[murstein]

And so, last night, I discovered that GNUCash can't handle importing too many .qif files at once. I really wish it had burped some time earlier than 8 hours into importing various .qif files. For now, I'm trying to feed it the largest of the files; if that breaks it, I'll have reason to wonder if GNUCash can handle as much financial data as I'm carrying around.

[entipy]

Oh goodness. You know, this is the sort of thing that petrifies me about keeping only digital financial info. (Which I just recently started doing!) I keep a back-up of my Quicken file on my flash drive, but I'd never considered the situation you have found yourself in - and it's a very real possibility if I ever upgrade! Thank you for sharing because now, when the time comes for an upgrade, maybe I will remember to make sure I have everything I need.

As for Windows - I hear ya. That and damn trojans. We have issues on our home desktop right now that I just cannot seem to get resolved despite the use of Ad-Aware and Kaspersky Internet. I had Norton 360 on there previously, and it evidently didn't catch these things. At any rate, I'm probably going to do a wipe and re-install of everything. *SIGH*

Damn computers.

[murstein]

If you do a wipe-and-install, make sure you back up the system registry first, too. Quicken needs stuff it puts in the registry to work. (I started to export it, but lost patience after exporting chunk #100.)

[entipy]

So, if I do a backup of my Quicken data via the "Backup" function in Quicken then wipe everything and re-install Quicken - I can't just restore from there?

[murstein]

Sure, if you manage to re-install Quicken. Have all your authorization codes? I didn't, and Quicken forgot I paid them, which is why I couldn't re-install without buying it again.

Sure, if I wanted to argue, I could track down the payment and harass them into admitting I bought it. But I'm trying to get away from paying for things I really don't need to pay for. And I'm also trying to get away from Windows, which is why I'm trying out other personal finance packages that are free downloads that run on Linux. If this works, then I'll only "need" Windows for games, homework, and the sort of debugging that the family geek is always asked to do.