v2.2.4 QIF import & reports

[Charles Day]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Stuart Blood <stuart.blood at valley.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>

You could still help us out by working through the QIF problem, as other
users are sure to see the same problem in the future. If there's a problem
with GnuCash's importer, I'd like to identify and fix it. If Quicken accepts
it, then GnuCash probably could too. Could you post the first few lines of
your QIF file, and any other lines beginning with an exclamation point?

Cheers,
Charles


>         Stuart
>
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