v2.2.4 QIF import & reports

[Stuart Blood]

At 08:07 PM 3/8/2008, Charles Day wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Stuart Blood 
><<mailto:stuart.blood at valley.net>stuart.blood at valley.net> wrote:
>
>(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.


I've realized that I can import QFX files, which seems to have solved 
my problem.  Thanks for the tip.  I'll save it in case I run into the 
QIF problem again.

         Stuart