Problem importing QIFs

[Doug Laidlaw]

I have recently upgraded my computer and my Windows OS is up from Win98 to XP, 
on a NTFS filesystem.

I still keep my Quicken 2005 as "reference" but I run mostly Mandriva Spring 
and Gnucash.  To keep the two in sync, I export QIF files from Quicken and 
import them into Gnucash.  The export is saved to my old Quicken directory on 
a vfat disk.  Often, a transaction already in Gnucash won't match properly 
and will be duplicated (usually because Quicken has changed the payer/payee 
to its own standard abbreviation.)

Since the upgrade I have noticed that transactions imported this way cannot be 
deleted (QIFs downloaded from the bank are O.K.)  I have tried changing the 
end-of-line from Windows to Linux, but that makes no difference.  The file is 
not noticeably different.  The only solution at the moment is to edit the 
import, then delete the native Gnucash one.  

QIF is still the only format available online from banks in Oz.

Doug.
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