command line QIF import

[D]

Nelson,

I don't see how a command line interface would help.

Since QIF is a text file format, you could always just go through the source file with a text editor first to get your data in a ship shape state and *then* do the import. Or, use quicken to edit the transactions first.

David

On October 15, 2017, at 10:03 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure about more efficient ways to import via QIF, which, by the way, is
reasonably efficient when done in small chunks,  but another caveat that
has not been raised recently is that as the data file grows it takes longer
to do the frequent file saves.

In Windows each save for my data file takes the file out of service for
over a minute with a very fast computer.  In Linux it is still 15 or 20
seconds.  I have about 10 years' data in my main file.

David C

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Nelson <fkjasdhf878 at mailinator.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to import about 20 years of Quicken transactions into GnuCash
> going trough a Quicken QIF export. As many people reported, this is a very
> painful process and requires endless manual corrections.
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to maybe to do the import from
> command line, and maybe to have more control of the process. Doing it from
> gui, there are no options to modify / adjust the process and all warnings /
> progress messages just disappear from the screen. Also, any entity
> remapping
> is not kept from one test to another and it seems that no useful logs are
> being created.
>
> I am running this on windows and I've noticed 83 .exe files in GnuCash's
> bin
> directory. Is any of these binaries capable to do an QIF import, maybe with
> more options than the gui does and proper logging?
>
> TIA.
>
>
>
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