Fwd: problems importing visa credit account .qif files: FIXED

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Oct 15 11:46:01 EDT 2005


Kiko Barahona <kikokun at telus.net> writes:

> Hi,
> I opened them .qif files with TextWrangler in order to compare them,
> this is what was different:
> Each entry has a date, in the good qif file (the one that imported no
> problem) the format is:
>
> D10/7/2005
>
> that's for Oct. the 7th 2005, what that D means, I don't know. The
> visa qif file that wouldn't import was formatted as:

D means Date

> M10/7/2005
>
> I did a search and replace to turn those pesky M's into goodie D's,
> and presto, the file loaded OK.
> As to what the Ms and Ds mean (day, month?) maybe somebody else can
> throw some light on this. The dates appear correct once in gnucash
> when compared with the online statement.
> Thanks

I have no idea what 'M' means.

-derek
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