Quicken 2004 users, when importing a QIF file, were greeted with a message that told them that Quicken 2005 would no longer let them perform such an import.

Quicken later accesses the Web Connect file to synchronize transactions. At the lowest level of access, you may have to download QIF files of your financial history, and then import these into the ...

Mint to Quicken If you're moving your finances management from Mint to Quicken, you can download a CSV file and convert it to QIF format for import into Quicken.

However, before you can transfer your PayPal history into Quicken, you need to download the data from your PayPal account as a QIF file to your computer.

QIF (Quicken Interchange Format) wasn’t designed for exchanging data with banks online but is compatible with older versions of Quicken. When you open a QIF file using Quicken’s Import QIF ...

If the financial institution's Web site allows you to manually download QIF files for each account, you can import the transactions into his Quicken registers that way.

But 2005 no longer reads the old .qif file format. Most financial institutions these days offer account downloads in a newer standard, OFX.

QIF files have long been used to save Quicken data and import transaction records in a format Quicken can read.