Opening that up with Winzip, I was able to extract a copy of QWUTIL.DLL. In the DISK1 folder of the CD image there’s a file called DATA1.CAB. So I fired up my favourite torrent utility and “borrowed” a copy of Quicken 2008 Home & Business (which at the time was the only version of Quicken 2008 that was being “shared”). I tried to find a more up-to-date version of this file that I would’ve expected Intuit to make available for users of the Data Converter utility, but so far they have nothing there. However, to confirm my suspicions I fired up DEPENDS.EXE (no, not an adult undergarment utility) and confirmed that the version of QWUTIL.DLL that ships with Quicken Deluxe 2007 does not include the CreateQWPAManager() API. I dug around Google for a while, which was not encouraging (it sounds like not one customer had ever found a tech support rep at Intuit that had any clue what this error message really means). If you’d prefer just the step-by-step recipe, just skip to the end of the article and enjoy! First ErrorĬreateQWPAManager could not be found in qwutil.dll If you’d like to hear the whole gory story, just keep reading. This is my gift to you, the many who have wisely determined that their foolish experiments with Microsoft’s finance software are best left behind.
I spent much of this weekend fighting with this software, troubleshooting all the various errors (mostly using Process Monitor - the best friend of anyone fighting with crappy, cryptic software) and finally came up with a solution that is (a) successful (unlike every report I’ve been able to find on the Internet) and (b) repeatable. Unfortunately, as much as I would’ve figured that Quicken would want to make it dead-easy to convert MS Money data to the Quicken format, it turns out that not only is their conversion tool buggy and not well documented, but the conversion process is pretty damned fragile (and requires a lossy and manual process of exporting into an XML format). After years of fighting and losing the battle to use Microsoft Money to stay on top of my finances, and after reading that Microsoft Money has only 1/4 of the market share that Quicken has (even after all these years of Microsoft trying to take over), I finally gave in (with a really sweet $33 deal via ) to sense and decided to switch my financial management to Quicken.
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