gnucash 2.2.6 - problems with qif import

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 11:28:00 EDT 2009


One final question before I add support for "Oth S" to the QIF importer.
Were you seeing this on a !Type line, like "!Type:Oth S"? Or was it a T
line, like "TOth S"?
Thanks,
Charles


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, so I'll make the QIF importer treat "Oth S" (German Quicken) the same
> as "Oth A" (English Quicken).
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Herbert Thoma <
> herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
>> Charles Day schrieb:
>> > I see this also discussed here:
>> > http://www.wiso-software.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&postID=91169
>> >
>> > What does "Vermögenskonten" mean? I am just trying figure out which
>> GnuCash
>> > account type is the closest/best match. The generic "asset" type? Or
>> "bank"?
>>
>> "Vermögenskonten" literally translates to "asset accounts"
>>
>>  Herbert.
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Charles
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM, and78386 at gmx.de <and78386 at gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Quicken 2009 German. Don't know what "Oth S" means, both were bank
>> >> accounts, so i don't know why the qif export of Quicken interpreted
>> them as
>> >> "Oth S".
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Andreas
>> >>
>> >> 2009/4/21 Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >>> Which version of Quicken are you using? German?
>> >>> Does "Oth S" mean asset? Or is it liability?
>> >>>
>> >>> I can add support for this to the QIF importer.
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> Charles
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, and78386 at gmx.de <and78386 at gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Just looked in my qif file again and it's "Oth S" that makes problems
>> >>>> when importing into gnucash 2.2.6!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Cheers,
>> >>>> Andreas
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 2009/4/21 Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Do you really mean "Oth S"? Or do you mean "Oth A"?
>> >>>>> We know that "Oth A" isn't working right in 2.2.9 and it has been
>> fixed
>> >>>>> (but not released.)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -Charles
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, and78386 at gmx.de <and78386 at gmx.de
>> >wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> I solved my problem in 2.2.6 now.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> After importing the Quicken 2009 qif file the properties of one
>> bank
>> >>>>>> account was wrong, and therefore the deposit and withdrawal values
>> were
>> >>>>>> interchanged. Correcting it to "bank" and this problem was solved.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Other problems in 2.2.6 with qif import:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> - account property "Oth S" has to be corrected manually to "Bank"
>> in
>> >>>>>> qif file before import
>> >>>>>> - deletion of double bookings manually after import
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Now all balances are exactly the same in gnucash like they were in
>> >>>>>> Quicken, so everything ok.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Thanks for such a great piece of software and for the good
>> support!!!
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>>> Andreas
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> 2009/4/20 Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I wonder if there is not something wrong other than the version. I
>> >>>>>>> think very little changed in the QIF import after 2.2.6. Certainly
>> nothing I
>> >>>>>>> can think of that would have this kind of result.
>> >>>>>>> Andreas, did you import multiple QIF files? If so, did you import
>> them
>> >>>>>>> together or separately?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Could you pick a specific transaction that was imported into
>> GnuCash
>> >>>>>>> incorrectly, and show the actual QIF data that it came from?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>>>> Charles
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu
>> >wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Safer than trying to continue to use the broken 2.2.6-3 package.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> -derek
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> "and78386 at gmx.de" <and78386 at gmx.de> writes:
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> Ok, but how safe and stable are such packages from foreign
>> >>>>>>>> repositories?
>> >>>>>>>>> Could they harm my system?
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>> 2009/4/18 Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it>
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Derek,
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu 8.10 is only available with gnucash 2.2.6. How do i
>> >>>>>>>> update gnucash
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> to
>> >>>>>>>>>>>> 2.2.9 on Ubuntu 8.10?
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>> I don't use Ubuntu.
>> >>>>>>>>>>> Either find a repository that has it, or build from source.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>> But 2.2.6 is old and there have been many QIF fixes.
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>> You can find a GnuCash 2.2.9 deb package for intrepid on
>> >>>>>>>>>> http://www.getdeb.net; I tested it and on my system works
>> well.
>> >>>>>>>>>>
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>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> --
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