<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Please remember to CC gnucash-user on all replies...<br><br>Ron Pepper <<a href="mailto:feffer777@gmail.com">feffer777@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> Thanks for the quick reply, I was away from the computer for some time. When
<br>> exporting the Full Export from Quicken on the Mac, I got a message at the end<br>> saying, "If a security has no symbol associated with it, it's price history is<br>> not exported. This might impact the reported Market Value of your securtiy
<br>> when you import".<br><br>That's not important.. The QIF importer doesn't import price quotes.<br><br>> All securities have been given symbols and mostly I used the publicly traded<br>> security symbol, however the mutual funds in a 401k were given the proprietary
<br>> designation that the plan used since they are not publicly traded. Also 2<br>> funds in my wife's 403b were given an arbitrary symbol since they didn't have<br>> one otherwise. I'm not sure whether or not this makes a difference. I did see
<br>> my symbol designations in the price.qif file though; none where blank or<br>> changed.<br><br>Okay..<br><br>> When I import this file into Gnucash, the import stops at 65% and I get the<br>> error message, "An error has occurred while loading the QIF file". Of course,
<br>> that's not a very satisfying or informative message!<br><br>What's printed on the terminal?<br><br>> When I exported single files, Categories, Classes, Prices, Security all<br>> started with the appropriate !Type line, Accounts started with !
<br>> Option:AutoSwitch. When I checked the Full Export file, that seemed to show !<br>> Type lines for the various types and I couldn't see any obvious error around 2<br>> /3 rds (65%) of the way down.<br>><br>
> I'm really not sure how to start troubleshooting this any suggestions?<br><br>Well, first, see what's printed on the terminal, if anything.<br>That might help. Then you might want to consider a binary search<br>through the file to figure out what's failing. Unfortunately
<br>the qif importer was written long ago by a developer who's no longer<br>around. It's only sort-of maintained but it's rather... finicky.</blockquote><div><br>
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I'm running gnucash from the GUI, not the terminal. So I don't get any
terminal messages. Also, I looked for a gnucash error log, but didn't
find anything. As I mentioned, I'm fairly new to Linux; where do I find
error log information?<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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> Thanks,<br>> Ron<br><br>-derek<br><br>--<br> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory<br> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)<br>
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