Importing QIF on Red Hat 9 w/ 1.85 fails
Marc Williams
marcw at onlymooo.com
Thu Sep 4 11:58:24 CDT 2003
So, for the time being, I'm SOL, right?
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:56, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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