[GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

[Geert Janssens]

Op zondag 4 november 2018 22:40:59 CET schreef btrib:
> Agreed. OFX/QIF works perfect. My CSV import did not only freeze but crashed
> the program and caused me to lose a large amount of data. Hundreds of asset
> transactions plus one entire liability account as well as several dozens of
> invoices -- all gone. CSV import has huge problems, stay away from any CSV
> importing at all costs. I wish there was a way to disable or remove it from
> the menu. It's by far the worst thing that's ever happened to my GnuCash
> data.

I'm sorry you had such a poor experience with the CSV importer and I'm glad 
you were able to recover most of your data (as I read in the remainder of the 
thread).

However none of this helps me in any way to improve the CSV importer. I 
completely agree it shouldn't crash or make you lose data. But I'll need more 
details to figure out why it crashed.

If you can consistently reproduce it, may I ask you to create a bug report in 
our Bugzilla instance [1] and supply the details needed for me to reproduce it 
as well ? Ideally, attach a simple test file and a small csv file that 
triggers the crash. Or a large csv file if that's what's needed to make it 
crash.

For the record, I can successfully run the csv importer with a csv file 
containing about 2000 transactions. It's a bit slow, but not out of the 
ordinary (15 to 20 seconds of delays). So clearly the size of the csv file 
itself is not the only factor and my test setup is not having what is needed 
to induce the crash.

Regards,

Geert

[1] Refer to http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla on how to use our bug 
tracker