v2.2.4 QIF import & reports

[Charles Day]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Stuart Blood <stuart.blood at valley.net>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm a new user. I've installed v2.2.4 for Windows today.  I've
> started importing several years of data from Quicken 2005.  I'm
> having two problems, which I'd like to solve before I commit to this
> change.  I couldn't find the answers in the archive.
>
> (1) I've downloaded transactions from my credit card company.  That
> generated a file called Activity.qif.  I confirmed that the file was
> ok by importing the transactions to Quicken 2005.  However, when I
> "import" to GnuCash, I get a message that, "QIF file load failed:
> File does not appear to be a QIF file."
>

GnuCash expects the first non-blank line of your QIF file to start with an
exclamation point. Can you show us the first few lines of your file, without
giving away any personal data? That's the first step. If that's not it, then
I believe that there is a line somewhere else in your file that starts with
an exclamation point, and that GnuCash doesn't understand the rest of that
line. So that's what we'd need to find. But let's start with the first few
lines of your QIF file.

Cheers,
Charles


(2) I have struggled quite a bit with reports.  How do I get an
> expense report for a particular period?  For example, how can I see
> what I spent on "utilities" in 2007.  No matter that I set the date
> range, my reports always show activity for the current year.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help for either of these problems.
>
>        Stuart
>
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