Unable to import OFX files in Gnucash 2.6.15

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 11:04 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I now longer seems to be able to import transactions from OFX files
> downloaded from my bank website in Gnucash 2.6.15. I compiled Gnucash from
> sources but did not include the aqbanking as these facilities are not
> provided for automatic downloading online by banks in Australia (at least
> not at present). They do have facilities for downloading OFX files from the
> bank's websites manually.
> 
> Do I need to compile with aqbanking to have the OFX import capability or has
> this been removed in favour of retrieving these files using aqbanking online 
> (not necessarily available in all jurisdictions)? I may answer my own
> question as I am about to recompile with aqbanking enabled to see if that
> fixes the problem.

Neither. GnuCash uses libofx for ofx/qfx imports. Check your config logs to make sure that it was enabled (i.e. you didn't pass --disable-ofx to configure) and available.

Regards,
John Ralls