Gnucash freezes while loading data

[Paul Konnersman]

David T. you nailed it.

I put the file in a word processor and changed all of the dates from
MM/DD/YYYY to MM-DD-YYYY and it worked beautifly. Thanks much.

Paul

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:50 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Those don’t sound like large files, so it sounds like there might be
> something wrong. Do they ALL hang, or only some of them?
>
> I will admit that I am not one to advise on importing, as I don’t do it
> much. That being said, I would take a close look at the source
> files—especially the date fields, as GnuCash can be somewhat finicky around
> variably-formed dates.
>
> David T.
>
> On Jan 21, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Paul Konnersman <konnersman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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