Importing QIF on Red Hat 9 w/ 1.85 fails

[Derek Atkins]

Marc Williams <marcw at onlymooo.com> writes:

> So, for the time being, I'm SOL, right?

Well, there are multiple things going on here.  Can you go into your
QIF file (it's just a text file) and find your transaction with 348
shares and perhaps send that one transaction here (along with the
!Type:xxx that appears before it)?

You might be able to get away with converting !Type:401(k) to
!Type:Invst but I don't know.  You may be SOL, you may not be.

As I said in my first message, this crash makes no sense to me.

-derek

> 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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