Importing QIF on Red Hat 9 w/ 1.85 fails

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 4 12:56:08 CDT 2003


Marc Williams <marcw at onlymooo.com> writes:

> Thanks for the prompt reply Derek!
> 
> I'm not real comfortable sending my QIF file out but let me ask you
> something else.  When I exported from Quicken, the export dialog asks if
> I want to include transactions, memorized transactions, Account list,
> Security List, and Category List.  I checked them all.  Is this correct?

Well, gnucash will not import memorized transactions and it will ignore
the security list.  The rest are fine.

> As far as your 401(k) question, I think the detailed tracking of those
> types of investment accounts is a feature only of Quicken Deluxe and not
> Quicken Basic.  We used it heavily.

Ahh, the importer has no idea what "!Type:401(k)" is or how to handle it.

-derek

> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:13, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > > Never having used Gnucash before, I have no idea why the import fails or
> > > what to do next.  The install and upgrade of the Gnucash application
> > > itself went flawlessly.  It's just the QIF import that seems to go
> > > haywire.  We do have many accounts in Quicken and tend to use all of its
> > > features.  When performing the Quicken QIF export, we told it to export
> > > everything.
> > 
> > That would usually be correct.  I'll note that there are a number of
> > "issues" with the existing qif importer...  But unless you're
> > willing/able to either send in your QIF data or whittle the data down
> > to a single transaction (or a few transactions) that show the problem
> > and send THAT in it will be very hard to track this down.
> > 
> > > Any ideas or suggestions are gratefully welcome.  Thanks!
> > 
> > Well, for one I would find your transaction that is handling the 348
> > shares of something and take a look at it...  Beyond that, I don't know
> > what to tell you :(
> > 
> > -derek
> 

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