gnucash 2 cannot import QIC file

[Derek Atkins]

What's a QIC file?  Do you mean QIF?   If gnucash crashes,
file a bug report.  But be sure you supply a backtrace
or the bug will get closed nearly immediately.

-derek

Peter Eldorson <drbjornberg at gmail.com> writes:

> Richard, did you resolve this?
>
> I had virtually identical trace notes to yours importing a Quicken 2005 
> version QIC file to Gnucash 1.8. Except it hung on the category 
> 'Unrealized Capital Gain'.
> Curious because I had no entry for this category. I discovered a series 
> of these categories that Quicken 2005 installs as  defaults. They cannot 
> be deleted in Quicken. Quicken flags them in the categories file list by 
> inserting a black 'dot' character in front of the category label.
> I did a global 'find&replace' on the QIC text file deleting all dots. 
> Otherwise I left the categories and the file intact.
> Gnucash then imported the whole file with absolutely no problem.
>
> I'm using a PPC Mac OSX Tiger and will upgrade to Gnucash 2 when Fink 
> makes it easy.
>
> Peter
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