GnuCash import

[Derek Atkins]

PLEASE CC GNUCASH-USER ON ALL REPLIES....

Quoting "Rev. John S. David " <revjohn at operamail.com>:

> dear derek
> thanks for such a quick response
> i'm using the gui version of GNUCash
> i don't know how to run it manually in a terminal

Run "gnucash" from the terminal.

> the actual error message is:
> Error - 
> File not found or read permission denied.
> Please select another file

Odd.  Perhaps an error on the terminal will help.  Can you provide a
step-by-step guide to what you do to produce this error?

> on using HOME, it reports Quick.QIF 23.9k Plain Text Document.  Opening it
> using KWrite, it looks like a 
> database and i can recognise many of my transaction 
> entries.
> 
> cheers
> revjohn

-derek

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:32:55 -0400
> To: "Rev. John S. David" <revjohn at operamail.com>
> Subject: Re: GnuCash import
> 
> Re: Hi,
> Re: 
> Re: Quoting "Rev. John S. David" <revjohn at operamail.com>:
> Re: 
> Re: > i'm trying to  import a QIF file generated by Quicken XQ
> Re: > in a Windows ME partition. GNUCash informs me that i do 
> Re: > not have permission to import this file, but the
> Re: > permissions read: rwxrwxrwx and the owner is myself as user.
> Re: > 
> Re: > any ideas??
> Re: > revjohn
> Re: 
> Re: What's the EXACT error message that is displayed?  Also, what error
> Re: message (if any) is output on the terminal where you manually run
> Re: gnucash?
> Re: 
> Re: -derek
> Re: 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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