Importing QIF files

[David Carlson]

On 2/2/2015 7:20 AM, Mark Wigmore wrote:
> PM: Just realised why you keep mentioning MD 2004 - sorry, my fault,
> it should be 2014!
>
> On 2 February 2015 at 13:17, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be helpful if you describe which step you got up to, which OS
>> you have, and your GnuCash version.  Have you tried a recent QIF from a
>> bank to see if that works?  Also, Moneydance is (or was) a Java program.
>> Are you still really using a 2004 version?  IIRC there were 20 or 30
>> versions per year in those days because the developer (yes, singular!)
>> could not get it right.
>>
>> I keep a copy of 2010 release 713 on one of my machines so I can read
>> old files.
>>
>> Also, since it looks like the QIF file is corrupted, a few lines
>> excerpted from one of the bad files with personal names obfuscated but
>> with all the lines from a header to one of the carets following would
>> also help.  Check the Wikipedia listing for QIF to see what it should
>> look like.
>>
>> I seem to recall that some versions of GnuCash had issues if the QIF
>> file did not have carriage returns between lines, so include enough info
>> so that can be checked.  Most text editors hide that detail, but it is
>> in the raw text.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> David C
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I suspected that, but the other information would be helpful.  I am not
a developer so those error messages are meaningless to me but I used to
do a lot of QIF imports into several different programs so I might
recognize a QIF format problem if there is one.

David C