bump. Thanks OP for maintaining this useful thread.

kamalktk said:arrognlie said:I thought I saw a recent notice about an OSS Quicken clone.
that's GNUcash I believe, already linked in this thread.GnuCash is definitely NOT a Quicken clone. Per the OP, Quicken is a single-entry accounting system & GnuCash uses dual-entry accounting.

Grisbi might be the closest to Quicken in design (but GnuCash is still much more mature).

Gnucash for MS Windows has been released.

DaveHanson said:Thanks noksagt. The download dated 4/28 says "unstable". Anyone try it yet?Thanks for pointing that out the "testing" status. I probably should have mentioned that. The announcement should probably be read by anyone who wants to try it. Similar warnings are issued from the installer, but many people might skip past that in their enthusiasm.

My primary finance application is gnucash-2.0.5 on Linux, which is the latest stable version. However, I have been using the 2.1 series on a Windows laptop on occasion. It is slower than on Linux (particularly startup (presumably due to all of the non-native libraries), but it is "usable." I haven't had any stability issues, but I do save my file frequently & make backups (in addition to the backups gnucash, itself, makes) "just-in-case."

Found another open source finance app today.

GFP (Yeah, it is called GFP but the url is http://gfd.sourceforge.net/).

It is written in Java so should/could run anywhere a current JRE is available. Note that it was originally written in Brazilian Portuguese and translated to English. It looks like it has good basic functionality today, and its usage is increasing.

sdb

sylvan said:P.S. Notice that OP's link to the sourceforge index is broken.Thanks. It is fixed now.

It looks like my second attempt to use GnuCash is ending like the first: in failure.
Fidelity gives MS Money and Intuit Quicken access to its OFX files, but no one else.
I can't download them.
Since I want to use Fido for billpay and checking, this is a big deal.

I haven't played with the Windows version as much as the Linux version, so don't know offhand if the win32 version has been compiled with the right pieces.

However, (using the Fidelity URL/login info listed in that note), you might be able to setup OFXDirectConnect within gnucash:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2

noksagt said:I haven't played with the Windows version as much as the Linux version, so don't know offhand if the win32 version has been compiled with the right pieces.

However, (using the Fidelity URL/login info listed in that note), you might be able to setup OFXDirectConnect within gnucash:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2
OMG! It worked (sort of).
It retrieved my accounts correctly, but had "backend errors" when parsing the retrieved balances and transactions.
How do I follow up?

noksagt said:kmith said:It retrieved my accounts correctly, but had "backend errors" when parsing the retrieved balances and transactions.
How do I follow up?Try to get the exact error messages that it gives.

Thank you for your interest in my troubles.
Note that GnuCash got the list of accounts successfully.
Quicken 2006 got everything (the list, accounts, and transactions) successfully.

Here are details.
My input:

Actions
Online Actions
Get Balance

GnuCash:

Online Banking Connection Window
Progress window pane
Current Job: Executing Jobs
Current Action: Now the jobs are send via their backends to the credit institutes.
Progress: full progress bar

Log Messages window pane
Resolving hostname "ofx.fidelity.com" ...
IP address is 155.199.128.216
Creating HTTPS connection
Connecting...
Sending request...
Waiting for response...
Parsing response...
Disconnecting...
Parsing response



Error window:

Error
Error executing backend's queue,
What shall we do?

Continue Abort