[GNC] ofx/qfx import to V3

[Geert Janssens]

dekenbluz at netscape.net schreef op 28 april 2018 22:31:10 CEST:
>
> David,
>Thanks!
>I was able to get and install the April 28 build.
>(https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-3.0-2018-04-28-git-3.0-116-gb761b5a0d+.setup.exe)
>Avast AV doesn't like either the installer or the installed executable
>to begin with but satisfies itself that both are malware free.
>
>This version does import a QFX file, however I did still see some
>issues:
>- the "Select an OFX/QFX file to process" dialog box had no apparent
>means of browsing to the file, nor of entering any sort of path to the
>file.  It did open the last location I imported from. So, to test, I
>moved the current import to that location - no problem.

This is indeed a new issue on Windows:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795653

>- the import process seemed to be less adept at matching transactions
>than it has been previously, though without going back and testing a
>previous version I can't be completely certain.  However, I've been
>using Gnucash and this feature in particular for a long time and I'm
>pretty sure.  (I just went to check how long by opening an old Gnucash
>archive - the "File/Open" dialog box also does not allow browsing to
>another directory or entry of a path) (opened the oldest gnucash file I
>have available.  I've been using it since at least 2007 and this is the
>first issue I've experienced - huge thank you to all that have made
>that possible!)
>

There have been a few reports of this recently. Can you please open a bugreport at https://bugzilla.gnome.org with your findings so we can track this ? 

>- I believe that a couple of transactions that were matched were also
>duplicated in the register.  The file auto-saved so I can't readily
>back out the changes to confirm this...

You can mention this as well in the report though I don't know if this is related.

Geert

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