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Has anyone here successfully migrated from GnuCash to Firefly III? How does it compare long term? GnuCash is amazing features wise, but the UI and cross platfor

Has anyone here successfully migrated from GnuCash to Firefly III? How does it compare long term? GnuCash is amazing features wise, but the UI and cross platform compatibility is subpar at best. And more importantly is it possible to import data from GnuCash? Last time I tried it I failed.

BuildTheRobots 7y ago
What are the GnuCash issues with cross-platform? We used to use it via dropbox on mac, linux and windows and never hit any obvious problems. The UI however...
- a254613e 7y ago
  I can't get it to use en_US for interface but de_DE for dates/currencies across all platforms. Because GnuCash insists on reading these settings from locales, and I can't get it right to save my life. So it'll see a comma when I open the file on windows and just report an error. Right now I'm considering running it in on my server and then connecting to it somehow from all the different platforms.
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  - bsznjyewgd 7y ago
    https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_Language_on_Windows https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_L... See the part about adding an environment file on Windows. On Linux, I set my LANG to en_US.UTF-8 but all the LC_* variables (apart from LC_ALL) to en_CA.UTF-8 and that gets me the right UI/formats mix in GnuCash (and also Chromium, which tries to speak British to me otherwise), and hopefully that works on Windows too.
mih 7y ago
I did make an attempt to switch from GnuCash to Firefly III, but had to switch back. As loathed as the GnuCash GUI is, Firefly III simply did not come close to the speed with which I could enter transactions in bulk via the keyboard. Plus, I was too used to GnuCash's data model and way of doing things. The reason I was drawn to FF III in the first place was because of its aesthetic appeal and visualization features. The graphing and reporting abilities of GnuCash are not to my taste. After some time, I settled down to converting from Gnucash to Ledger using PieCash (https://github.com/sdementen/piecash https://github.com/sdementen/piecash), and visualizing the ledger file using LedgerWeb (https://vifon.github.io/ledger-web/ https://vifon.github.io/ledger-web/). A bit of a workaround, but can be scripted and works fine for me.

BuildTheRobots 7y ago

What are the GnuCash issues with cross-platform? We used to use it via dropbox on mac, linux and windows and never hit any obvious problems. The UI however...

a254613e 7y ago
I can't get it to use en_US for interface but de_DE for dates/currencies across all platforms. Because GnuCash insists on reading these settings from locales, and I can't get it right to save my life. So it'll see a comma when I open the file on windows and just report an error. Right now I'm considering running it in on my server and then connecting to it somehow from all the different platforms.
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- bsznjyewgd 7y ago
  https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_Language_on_Windows https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Locale_Settings#Changing_the_L... See the part about adding an environment file on Windows. On Linux, I set my LANG to en_US.UTF-8 but all the LC_* variables (apart from LC_ALL) to en_CA.UTF-8 and that gets me the right UI/formats mix in GnuCash (and also Chromium, which tries to speak British to me otherwise), and hopefully that works on Windows too.

mih 7y ago

I did make an attempt to switch from GnuCash to Firefly III, but had to switch back. As loathed as the GnuCash GUI is, Firefly III simply did not come close to the speed with which I could enter transactions in bulk via the keyboard. Plus, I was too used to GnuCash's data model and way of doing things. The reason I was drawn to FF III in the first place was because of its aesthetic appeal and visualization features. The graphing and reporting abilities of GnuCash are not to my taste. After some time, I settled down to converting from Gnucash to Ledger using PieCash (https://github.com/sdementen/piecash https://github.com/sdementen/piecash), and visualizing the ledger file using LedgerWeb (https://vifon.github.io/ledger-web/ https://vifon.github.io/ledger-web/). A bit of a workaround, but can be scripted and works fine for me.