yet another QIF import problem

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 14 March 2008 2:49:16 pm Charles Day wrote:
> >
> > NTaxes:Property tax
> > DTaxes:Property tax
> > E
> > ^
> >
> > It did that to all of the catgories, and there are a lot of them. If I can
> > cobble up a regexp that works I'll get rid of those and see what happens.
> >
> 
> What you have shown here is part of a QIF category list, so the "D" line in
> this case is not supposed to be a date, but rather a description. So this
> looks fine to me the way it is.
> 

Oh well, then, I better leave them alone! 

> Can you search for any parentheses in your QIF file? I just want verify that
> Moneydance has been consistent in using a dash for negative numbers. Perhaps
> there is a negative number *somewhere* in your file that uses parentheses.
> 
> You could check with this command:
>   grep '^T.*(' filename.qif

Done. No parentheses. 

I tried exporting just the last month's activities, and GnuCash had no problem 
importing the file. So apparently there's something in the big QIF export 
that isn't right. Spose I can break it down into smaller pieces and see what 
happens. Moneydance won't do separate exports by account, but you can choose 
smaller date ranges.

It looks really good, the last time I tried Gnucash it wasn't so pretty. 
Jaggedy ugly fonts and funny colors :) It's sleek now, and very readable. 
Well done, gnucash people!

Carla

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