qif bug

[Charles Day]

Please CC the the list on your replies. In other words, "Reply All".
Honestly it sounds like the fix didn't get installed somehow, as that
scenario (a backslash in a category name) works perfectly here.

I believe the files get put in whatever folder you chose to save your
GnuCash data. So if you don't want it in My Documents, then close GnuCash,
move it all somewhere else, then restart GnuCash and File->Open to tell it
where to find the data.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

-Charles


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Thomas T McGranahan <
frogwood at chamberscable.com> wrote:

>  This morning before I left for VIM, I put the \ back into Yard\Plants,
> and them made a qif file with Quicken.  I downloaded another qif-parse and
> put it in place.  What I am finding is that originally there were  two
> places where there were \'s.  Yard\Plants, in its description yard\plants.
> The parser can overcome the \ in the description, but not in the name
> itself. If I change the \ in the name to -, and leave the \ in the
> description, everything works.  But if I put a \ back into the name, it
> fails.  I have changed both to - and do not expect any more problems anyway.
> I hope this explains things.
> One minor question.  Is there any way to put all the files that turn up in
> My Documents somewhere else?
> Thanks again,
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
> *To:* Thomas T McGranahan <frogwood at chamberscable.com> ; gnu-cash<gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2009 1:32 PM
> *Subject:* Re: qif bug
>
> (Note to list: several exchanges -- not shown -- happened off-list in the
> meantime.)
>
> Great, glad to hear it. However, I'm still a bit confused: Did you have to
> remove the backslash to get it to stop displaying the "bug detected"
> message? And if so, could you show me the transaction that had the
> backslash? If there is still a bug, I'd like to fix it.
>
> Also, please check your non-investment transactions to see if the reconcile
> flag appears correctly in GnuCash. There was a bug recently reported whereby
> non-investment transactions would lose their "cleared" or "reconciled"
> status when imported.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Thomas T McGranahan <
> frogwood at chamberscable.com> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks to you I found the (\) and now everything imports without a
>> flaw.  Now to the users manual!
>> Thank you so much.
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Thomas T McGranahan <frogwood at chamberscable.com>
>>  *Sent:* Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:29 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: qif bug
>>
>> That's interesting, as the logfile that you've attached shows a backslash
>> (\) in a category named "Yard\Plants". (Note: the log file actually shows
>> two backslashes, but this is a logfile display issue with the Scheme
>> language.)
>> Could you take a look and see if Yard\Plants actually exists in your QIF
>> file? If you find it, could reply with the transaction? Or could you tell me
>> what "Yard\Plants" actually looks like in Quicken and in your QIF file?
>>
>> I wish I could still reproduce your problem (I could before the fix.) Any
>> additional information would be helpful to the next person even if you don't
>> end up using GnuCash.
>>
>> Since I don't have your data, I thought I would mock up a transaction to
>> test with. This caused the bug message before the fix but not after.
>>
>> -Charles
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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