QIF import not working?

[Richard]

Thanks your reply, I have opened the file and there is a lot of data, it 
appears to be a majority of the invoices made? what should I be looking for?

On 25/01/2012 07:44 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard<judgesinel at netscape.net>  writes:
>
>> The QIF file is not empty and there is no error message, it is exactly as
>> explained. I do not know how to embellish this further other than to create
> Are you *sure* that it has *TRANSACTIONAL* information and doesn't just
> contain accounts?  The behavior you are seeing generally happens only
> when there is no transactional information in the QIF file.
>
>> pictures of the process I have followed. I simply expected additional
>> information other than the obvious which I suppose occurs?
> It's all based on the contents of the QIF file.
>
> [snip]
>> This takes a short while to import
> If the file is large (lots of accounts) it can still take a long time to
> parse, even if there is no transactional data in it.
>
> [snip]
>> Next step is blank?
> Again, this implies there are no actual transactions in the file, for
> example if you are importing just a chart of accounts without any
> transactions in it.
>
>> [cid]
>>
>> Forward after this step even picks up my local currency, but I can find
>> nothing imported, even though it has clearly gone through the process?
> The QIF file could still have a currency setting even if it contains no
> transactions.
>
> Again, for the third time, can you please verify that your QIF file
> contains transactional information and not just account information?
> The GnuCash QIF importer only imports transactions.  It will use account
> information from the QIF file to help determine how to process the
> transactions, but if there are no transactions in the QIF file then it
> wont import anything, which is what you are seeing.
>
> So again, can you check your QIF file for real transactions?  Maybe even
> send a bit of your QIF file here?
>
> -derek