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93cdrhum Posted messages 198 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
brucine Posted messages 24767 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello.

With Money Manager Ex, is it possible to load data saved with another software, for example data: .bdu?

Thank you!


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    Bruno83200_6929 Posted messages 725 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   170
     

    Hello,

    If the software that uses the .bdu format allows exporting data to a CSV format, you can convert your .bdu data to CSV. Then, MMEX can import this CSV file, provided that the fields are correctly formatted (for example: Date, Payee, Amount, Category, etc.). MMEX offers flexible importing where you can define the order of fields in the CSV file.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24767 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 160
       

      Hello,

      Probably not quite.

      .bdu is just a backup format, likely coming from Accounts and Budget, and there's nothing we can do with it outside of this software.

      It’s the working file Accounts and Budget that we will export to CSV; .bdu will only be useful if, for some reason, we have uninstalled Accounts and Budget, in which case we will need to reinstall it by importing this .bdu backup.

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    2. Bruno83200_6929 Posted messages 725 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   170 > brucine Posted messages 24767 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      If the .bdu file indeed comes from Accounts and Budget, the software allows exports in CSV format!

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    3. brucine Posted messages 24767 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 160 > Bruno83200_6929 Posted messages 725 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      Yes, absolutely, but from the software itself, not from the .bdu file taken in isolation which we won't be able to convert to CSV.

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    4. 93cdrhum Posted messages 198 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   21
       

      Thank you!

      But... having no existing setup in MMX, no menu is offering me to import the CSV files that I exported from Accounts and Budget...

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    5. 93cdrhum Posted messages 198 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   21 > brucine Posted messages 24767 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      Thank you!

      But what is the working file for Accounts and Budget? I think I only have the BDU backup files...

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