Transitioning to gnucash

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 03:40:32 EST 2017


On 3 January 2017 at 23:41, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
<drkirkby at kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> On 3 January 2017 at 21:51, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
>
>>   Further research determines that this is not a .qif file despite the
>> name.
>> That's probably why it crashed the application.
>
>
> You should report this as a bug, if an invalid file causes an application
> to crash. That should never happen, irrespective of whether the file is
> .qif, .gmp, .jpg, .ext or anything else. Software should check the format
> of the file and either parse it or not. It should not crash.
>
> I found downloads from PayPal were crashing the previous version. I opened
> a bug, and it got fixed. Software should never crash.

Note that the OP is not using the latest version.  Ideally it should
be tested with the latest version before submitting a bug.

Colin


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