command line QIF import

[Dave Gillam]

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David


On Oct 15, 2017, at 3:20 PM, D via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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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