QIF import.... nothing imported

[david.carlson.417@gmail.com]

    Glad you finally had an epiphany :)
I am sure that the developers do not promise that Gnucash will give an error message for any possible condition like the one that you had.  You might have noticed that it skipped the match payees step or the match transactions step if the documentation in the help had been more explicit.
David C
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------ Original message------From: AllanDate: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 8:02 PMTo: David Carlson;Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org;Subject:Re: QIF import.... nothing imported
    I'll rerun and report the steps: 
    File->Import->QIF
    Info screen:click Forward
    Select the file to load. Here's part of it... 106 lines total...    This looks ok to me.
    !Type:Invst
    D11/19'15
    U0.03
    T0.03
    MCourtesy Credit
    LIncome:Interest
    ^
    D12/01'15
    U0.03
    T0.03
    MCourtesy Credit
    LIncome:Interest
    ^
    D12/03'15
    U0.01
    T0.01
    MCourtesy Credit
    LIncome:Interest
    ^
    D12/17'15
    U0.01
    T0.01
    MCourtesy Credit
    LIncome:Interest
    ^
    ....
    
    Info screen: press Start
    Account Name: I enter the account ... Assets:Cash acct  and Forward
    "QIF files you have loaded..." I'm done, click Forward.
    Info screen, click forward, 
    Match QIF accounts with GC accounts. One is shown, exact match as    always. Forward
    Income and expense categories info screen: Forward
    Match QIF categories with GC accounts: big list of 20-25  categories    and accounts, all exact matches. nothing New. Click forward, 
    Currency USD , Forward
    QIF import Start
    Update your GC accounts: Click Apply
    QIF Import complete, Done.
    
    Now I look for changes in the registers.....and can't find any    anywhere. Nothing happened!!!!
    
    Somewhere a light shines... an angel appeared, ... (weird, but... he    looks like ObiWan, Oh well, I'm deparate here!), and says... 
    
    Check the QIF!
    
    Huh. Not the force? At this point, I got to looking in some other    QIF's that imported months ago, and found the problem. I have no P    (Payee) field in the QIF. In my register, it was blank so I left it    out in the Calc2QIF macro that creates the QIF. The following QIF is    what's needed (with the PGT, Payee field:
    
    D03/02'15
    U19.80
    T19.80
    PGT
    MGOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO: CASH DIV  ON     330: AT $.06        PER SHARE
    LIncome:Dividend:GT
    ^
    
    What an ordeal. There needs to be some kind of error or message to    indicate what's going on here.
    
    Thanks for your help David. Come by for a cold one any time! :-)
    
    Allan 
    
    
    On 01/02/2016 11:09 AM, David Carlson      wrote:
                      Allan,
          
          When you follow the QIF Import procedure outlined in Getting          Started section of the help manual, after some preliminary          steps you get to the step where you are given the opportunity          to match the import transactions to existing transactions,          that is the list that will be imported.  
          
          Every transaction in that list should appear in the register          of the account that you are importing into unless you match          them in that step.  Is that step nada zip?
          
                David C
                    
        On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com>          wrote:
                       GC 2.6.9 (off the              help screen "This copy was built from rev 4241505+ on              2015-10-07." ), Linux Mint 17.2, I saw a bunch of              accounts/matching during import as expected, nothing in              the registers I can find. No, I mean no new accounts              (sometimes matching will end up creating new accounts when              I was experimenting but couldn't find anything new). Just              nada, zip, like I didn't import. Adding to a file I've              been using all year. 
              
              Never touched 2.6.10....                              
                  
                  On 01/01/2016 09:27 PM, David Carlson wrote:
                                                        We need more info to help you.  What                      OS? Which release of GnuCash? If you saw                      transactions appearing during the import?  Are                      they now in the register? You suggest that some                      new accounts appeared during the import but they                      did not show up in the chart of accounts after the                      import.  Is that correct?  Are you trying to                      create a new file or add to an existing file?                    David C                    On Jan 1, 2016 7:40 PM,                      "Allan" <allanhasmail at gmail.com>                      wrote:
                      I'm stumped.
                        
                        I do a QIF import (actually about 5 times                        now.... but) as I've been doing, nothing                        unusual, arrive at the "done" screen, but I                        can't find anything changed. The QIF file looks                        OK in emacs. There's no new accounts.
                        
                        I don't know what to look at for clues.
                        
                        Allan
                        
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