QIF import.... nothing imported

[Allan]

I'll rerun and report the steps:
File->Import->QIF
Info screen:click Forward
Select the file to load. Here's part of it... 106 lines total... This 
looks ok to me.
!Type:Invst
D11/19'15
U0.03
T0.03
MCourtesy Credit
LIncome:Interest
^
D12/01'15
U0.03
T0.03
MCourtesy Credit
LIncome:Interest
^
D12/03'15
U0.01
T0.01
MCourtesy Credit
LIncome:Interest
^
D12/17'15
U0.01
T0.01
MCourtesy Credit
LIncome:Interest
^
....

Info screen: press Start
Account Name: I enter the account ... Assets:Cash acct  and Forward
"QIF files you have loaded..." I'm done, click Forward.
Info screen, click forward,
Match QIF accounts with GC accounts. One is shown, exact match as 
always. Forward
Income and expense categories info screen: Forward
Match QIF categories with GC accounts: big list of 20-25  categories and 
accounts, all exact matches. nothing New. Click forward,
Currency USD , Forward
QIF import Start
Update your GC accounts: Click Apply
QIF Import complete, Done.

Now I look for changes in the registers.....and can't find any anywhere. 
Nothing happened!!!!

Somewhere a light shines... an angel appeared, ... (weird, but... he 
looks like ObiWan, Oh well, I'm deparate here!), and says...

Check the QIF!

Huh. Not the force? At this point, I got to looking in some other QIF's 
that imported months ago, and found the problem. I have no P (Payee) 
field in the QIF. In my register, it was blank so I left it out in the 
Calc2QIF macro that creates the QIF. The following QIF is what's needed 
(with the PGT, Payee field:

D03/02'15
U19.80
T19.80
PGT
MGOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO: CASH DIV  ON     330: AT $.06 PER SHARE
LIncome:Dividend:GT
^

What an ordeal. There needs to be some kind of error or message to 
indicate what's going on here.

Thanks for your help David. Come by for a cold one any time! :-)

Allan


On 01/02/2016 11:09 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> Allan,
>
> When you follow the QIF Import procedure outlined in Getting Started 
> section of the help manual, after some preliminary steps you get to 
> the step where you are given the opportunity to match the import 
> transactions to existing transactions, that is the list that will be 
> imported.
>
> Every transaction in that list should appear in the register of the 
> account that you are importing into unless you match them in that 
> step.  Is that step nada zip?
>
> David C
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com 
> <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     GC 2.6.9 (off the help screen "This copy was built from rev
>     4241505+ on 2015-10-07." ), Linux Mint 17.2, I saw a bunch of
>     accounts/matching during import as expected, nothing in the
>     registers I can find. No, I mean no new accounts (sometimes
>     matching will end up creating new accounts when I was
>     experimenting but couldn't find anything new). Just nada, zip,
>     like I didn't import. Adding to a file I've been using all year.
>
>     Never touched 2.6.10....
>
>
>     On 01/01/2016 09:27 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>
>>     We need more info to help you.  What OS? Which release of
>>     GnuCash? If you saw transactions appearing during the import? 
>>     Are they now in the register? You suggest that some new accounts
>>     appeared during the import but they did not show up in the chart
>>     of accounts after the import.  Is that correct?  Are you trying
>>     to create a new file or add to an existing file?
>>
>>     David C
>>
>>     On Jan 1, 2016 7:40 PM, "Allan" <allanhasmail at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:allanhasmail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm stumped.
>>
>>         I do a QIF import (actually about 5 times now.... but) as
>>         I've been doing, nothing unusual, arrive at the "done"
>>         screen, but I can't find anything changed. The QIF file looks
>>         OK in emacs. There's no new accounts.
>>
>>         I don't know what to look at for clues.
>>
>>         Allan
>>
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