[Novalug] Stick IT 2 Yaah / was Quicken .qdf format

[JRR]

Hi LL Luglist;

1) Outlook - I just got through helping a customer last week with 
Outlook 2003.
He got his MS$ Office package screwed up and so he attempted to 
reinstall IT.
himself.... but Outlook will automatically default to the MS$ Exchange 
Server mode,
and when it finds no ExServ directories, files, it prompts for their 
location. There is no
hint anywhere of how to go  into standalone s/w install mode. Outlook 
uses two file types
to store the downloaded Emails, and more recent versions have 
progressively more complex
file compression methods, used by default. This CPA had over 200 MB of 
mail for 4+
workers going back 4+ years.........

2) Quick Books - If you go online Quick Books has always been willing to 
provide free minor
s/w updates going back as far as 9 - 10 years ago. The problem with 
these updates is that
you can't get the updates in a form that would let you reinstall the s/w 
on another machine,
So you have to buy the next major revision of the software to get your 
financial data out sooner or (not much) later.  As they added features 
they also slammed the door on using a newer version file with an
older version of the software..........  The backup files are in *.qbb 
format.

3) IRA's - I have a ROTH IRA - it is wonderful. I just wish I had money 
to throw in it right now.
The normal IRAs are not nearly as good.  SEP IRAs are good too. To stay 
on track - there are
several irreplaceable investment opportunities right now, and I say that 
as a guy who has doubled
his money or better FIVE TIMES since 1980........ There have been years 
when there wasn't
anything worth scratching yourself over too.........  Anyway  Lithium is 
the word!!!! With the
advent of hybrid cars some 500,000 large Li-Hydride batteries will be 
produced per year,
and the ore / mineral is just laying around on the surface --- in Chille 
South America -- and it
is all controlled by  3 Companies. Their stocks have already tripled and 
I'm expecting more
over the next 24 - 36 months.  Just remember where you heard about this 
one guys......
:-)

Rich Goodwin wrote:
> Sean Reilly is a contributor to the responses that I read.  He owns
> MoneyDance - a great personal financial manager  that runs natively on
> Linux ( and those other OS's).  I will attest to Sean's support - I
> tried to get him to talk at NOVALUG years ago when he lived in Richmond.
> He's overseas now but the support is great.  
>
> They do know how to deal with QIF data .... I had help from them a few
> time in the past.
>
> Rich
>
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 22:56 -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 21:21 -0400, Paul D. Bain wrote:
>>     
>>> Or maybe not:
>>> A) 
>>> http://getsatisfaction.com/theinfinitekind/topics/converting_from_quicken_qdf_files_not_supported
>>> B) 
>>> http://getsatisfaction.com/theinfinitekind/topics/best_way_to_import_quicken_file
>>> C) 
>>> http://getsatisfaction.com/theinfinitekind/topics/major_qif_import_issues
>>>       
>> Some proprietary software does not make it easy to export your data.
>> Outlook and Quicken have been absolutely spectacular examples of
>> this S... repeatedly.  ;)
>>
>>
>>     
>
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