Gnucash freezes while loading data

Paul Konnersman konnersman at gmail.com
Sun Jan 21 08:59:59 EST 2018


Thank you for the suggestions David T.

Each of the files that I have been trying to import contains three weeks of
transactions from one bank account. They are all between 1kb and 3kb.

Paul

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:15 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Moreover, any import process can take a long time to complete (with no
> indication of progress). If you are importing a large csv file (as you
> might be doing if you are migrating in to GnuCash), it can be especially
> time consuming. Five or ten minutes is not unheard of.
>
> Try again and wait it out, as David C. suggests.
>
> If it really gets hung up, you would be well-advised to break the import
> up into smaller portions, thus reducing the time to process any given
> subset, and also increasing the likelihood of finding any erroneous data
> that might be causing a glitch. Heck, you may want to do this anyway.
>
> David T.
>
> > On Jan 21, 2018, at 4:45 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure how you know it is 'frozen' after such a short time.  GnuCash
> does
> > not have any 'activity' indicator. Try giving it several minutes.
> >
> > David C
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Paul Konnersman <konnersman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I have just made the decision to use Gnucash. So far I have successfully
> >> imported my chart of accounts from a csv-file and attempted to import a
> >> csv-file of transaction data. After 20-30 seconds of the transaction
> import
> >> Gnucash freezes and I have to force quit. Any suggestions will be
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >> Running Gnucash 2.6.19 with OSX High Sierra on a Macbook Pro
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