Quickbooks to GnuCASH

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 23:30:19 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Tony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> wrote:

> Forgive me, but how do I determine if I have an updated qif-to-gnc.scm?
>

The version you need can be downloaded from
here<http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm?rev=17010&format=txt>.
Replace your existing, installed copy of qif-to-gnc.scm and restart GnuCash.

-Charles


> --Tony
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:46 -0400, Michael DeBusk wrote:
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >
> > >> I couldn't get it all imported without massive errors.
> > >
> > > When was this?  There's been a lot of work on the QIF Importer
> > > recently and it really seems to do a MUCH better job, thanks to
> > > Charles Day.  But you need to be running 2.2.4 (plus an updated
> > > qif-to-gnc.scm) to get all the fixes.
> >
> > It was at the beginning of 2007, or maybe the end of 2006.
> >
> > Although the QIF Importer may have been buggy, I imagine my complete
> > inability to get my data imported had quite a bit to do with my lack of
> > patience at the time. I had switched to Linux from OS/2 at the same
> > time, so I was feeling like a complete n00b (and I hadn't felt that way
> > since the early 1990s, when I first experienced the cold starkness of
> > the DOS prompt). Anything that didn't "just work" I had to put aside
> > until I felt at home in Linux. Quicken 98 worked fine under Wine.
> >
> > Now, I compile GnuCash from the tarball*, routinely edit QIF files by
> > hand, and am reviewing my old college Accounting textbooks. (Anybody
> > remember doing double-entry on paper? Those were the days!) So it's all
> > good. All that's left is to learn to code in C so I can pitch in.
> >
> > Oh, I do have 2.2.4 and the updated qif-to-gnc.scm.
> >
> > *I am running Ubuntu and I want OFX import capabilities
> >
>
>


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