QIF import fails for zero sum split

[John Ralls]

On Feb 2, 2014, at 5:33 AM, B Wooster <bwooster47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read some archived postings on this issue regarding Moneydance vs Quicken
> imports, but that was a 2008 posting, and it seems to suggest that Quicken
> should be fine.
> 
> I'm totally new to GnuCash, just trying it out. Have over 20 years of
> Quicken 2006 data, the QIF file is around 2.3M.
> 
> Imported it all as a single QIF file, and all import info screens seemed to
> do the right thing (except it could not import many of the investment
> actions such as grant, exercise, etc).
> 
> But the first key problem is that $0 Split Transactions in my checking
> account were wrongly imported.
> Non-$0 splits seem to be have been handled fine.
> For each of the $0 splits, every transfer listed in the split was converted
> to a
> Withdrawal column item in my GnuCash Checking account.
> One easy way for me to spot these was the "n" in the R column of the
> checking account! All other lines have a "y" in there (reconciled), at
> least for this Quicken 2006 account.
> 
> Is this a known issue, and is there any workaround for a fix?

I don't understand what you mean by "$0 split transaction". Could you give an example?

Regards,
John Ralls