Dealing with a large QIF file

[Liz]

On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:46:30 +0000
"cliffhanger at gardener.com" <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:

>    Thanks. Yes one can import one at a time but this cheque ac from
>    Quicken is huge and has references to other card accounts as
> categories within it. These accounts don't exist anymore and gnucash
> is trying to create them as part of the import. This is something I'd
> like to avoid. Hope this makes sense. Cliff

Everything in Gnucash must reference (at least) one other account. You
would be well advised to follow Lincoln's advice to make a single
account to put the other half of these transactions.

Another option is not to go so far back in the past, and start from a
more recent date.

Liz