1. One way to make a file not read-only is to right-click the file in Windows Explorer. Choose Properties. Un-tick Read-only at the bottom.
2. If you want to do the QIF export/import, first export all accounts to Loose QIF
files, one at a time. I would suggest this: start the name of the QIF file for the investment
accounts with an underscore (_), and start the name of QIF files for the cash
accounts associated with the investments with a letter. Thus you might have
_BrownInvestment.qif and BrownInvestmentCash.qif. This would cause the
investment account to be processed prior to the associated cash account. When
the BrownInvestment got created, you would specify that you want to track the
cash transactions. Then specify that the cash transactions account for
BrownInvestment was where the BrownInvestmentCash.qif transactions get sent.
Create a new Money file with
File->New->NewFile.
Name it something like Try2013.mny.
Click Next.
Select (*)I don't want to use a password.
Next.
On page titled "Add your accounts", click "Skip account setup." if you want to wait until the QIF import to create the accounts. Alternatively you could create empty accounts at this point, and then you will have those to choose from during
the QIF import.
On page titled "Congratulations" click Finish.
Then you could try your same import. Money should then ask about an account. Let Money create an account, and see what shows up.
To switch back to your regular file, Click File and select your real file from the list at the bottom of the drop-down list.
Then
File->Import->RecoverAccounts using Ctrl+<click> to select each and
all of the
QIF files that you made. Make sure that you understand and follow this step. Then click Import.
Money should then ask about an account as the files are processed. Let Money create an account that you will provide the name for. Since you gave the QIF files meaningful names, you should know what to name the account. Since you started the filename for any
investment accounts with a '_', I expect them to come in first.
