Why did Intuit stop allowing export of data in QIF

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I just learned that I am locked into Q2019Mac since there is no way in 2-3 yrs to export my data in QIF format if I want to change to another app--do I mis-understand?

smayer97

smayer97

mshiggins

J_Mike

smayer97

mshiggins

mshiggins

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

Is the data structure known?

smayer97

mshiggins

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

So one can do SQL queries on the QMac database?

jacobs

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

Sure, if you know enough to muck around in there, and want to risk doing something which could mess up your data file if you do something wrong. But for read-only purposes, you could do it if you could piece together the structure of the database.

mshiggins

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

Thanks for the info.

bball629

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

Would you know where to find the SQLite database on Windows? I can't seem to find any .db or .sqlite files anywhere in my quicken files or in the program files folder.

smayer97

bball629 said:

RickO said:

I will add this: Quicken's internal data format is not secret or proprietary. It is an SQLite database. Another software company could program their app to extract the data and import it into their format. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it could be done. It would be up to the other program to work this out.

Would you know where to find the SQLite database on Windows? I can't seem to find any .db or .sqlite files anywhere in my quicken files or in the program files folder.

The above statement only applies to QMac, as this discussion thread is about QMac.

But regarding QWin, it does not use a SQLite database.