GC 2.2.9 Crash Importing .qfx Files.

[David Reiser]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Doc Kinne wrote:

> Hi Folks:
> 
> I'm hoping someone can help here.
> 
> I am trying to migrate over to GnuCash after using Quicken for over 15
> years. All accounts are set up and I'm getting used to double-entry
> accounting. What I'm having a problem with is important bank
> transactions.
> 
> According to what I am reading GC imports OFX/QFX files. Well, I still
> don't know what OFX files are, but my bank allowed me, through "Web
> Connect" to download "transaction.qfx" files that Quicken would read,
> transaction match, and load into my Quicken data file.

OFX (Open Financial eXchange) is the documented version of a particular format of transaction data. Intuit adds a few proprietary twists and calls it QFX. I haven't had gnucash crash on importing any ofx or qfx file I have access to.
> 
> Because I saw an "Import OFX/QFX" option in GC, I expected GC to do
> something similar. I didn't expect it to crash while trying to do so.
> 
> So, I have two questions.
> 
> 1) CAN GC read in .qfx files from a bank, import them in, and
> transaction match them?

yes.

> 
> 2) If so, why might GC crash on my machine while trying to do this? I'm
> running GC 2.2.9 under Ubuntu 9.10. The .qfx files are coming from
> Cambridge Trust in Cambridge, MA.

I don't know. OFX and QFX are both text files. If you open your qfx files, do they look normal?

Can you get a crash log for gnucash?

> 
> I've just started trying to use GC so I'm not sure where to go with this
> crashing problem. The folder I'm putting financial data in is already
> littered with .log and .xac files just in the two hour I've been using
> the program.

.log and .xac have nothing to do with importing. They are log files of your entries and backups of your data file.

> 
> When you select a .qfx file to import, it asks you for the file, you
> select it, and when you hit OPEN the program simply vanishes. I crashes
> hard enough that the lock file is not dealt with properly and upon
> re-running the program it says that a lock file is in place and asks you
> what you want to do about it.

The persistence of lock files happens on any gnucash crash, regardless of severity. The lock files are just about the last thing to be released on a normal gnucash application shutdown.

> 
> Thanks for any thoughts, folks!
> 
> -- 
> Richard "Doc" KINNE, BA, MSc., MAAS, [KQR]
> (sent from the Linus Netbook)


Dave
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