qif import confusion, 2.0.4
Terry Therneau
therneau at mayo.edu
Mon Feb 12 12:48:45 EST 2007
Backround
I've been trying to import a very large, handbuilt qif (I've been using
DOS quicken for 10+ years, the last 5 in a dosemu box), and had some
gliches. So I pulled down the source and got 2.0.4 compiled on my
Fedora Core 4 machine, replacing 1.8. No sense bothering the developers
over something already fixed.
Problem
After importing my test.qif file (1/5 of the whole), the final "accept"
option left me with a blank accounts screen. I assumed that I must have
done something wrong --- 1.8 showed an account tree at this stage. I then
got the same behaviour with one of the test files in doc/examples.
Then I accidentally discovered that the file acutually DID import, but you
have to use the "new account tree" menu item to force a refresh.
Request
The qif importer should update the account tree display when finished.
Others will think, as I did, that the import failed.
Thank you for your efforts,
Terry Therneau
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