[GNC] GNC 3.3 CSV Importer Freezing on MacOS

Wole Lawani lawani at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 13:42:15 EDT 2018


I was unable to get the CSV import to work.

Eventually I converted the CSV to a QIF file and that worked.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:34 PM Wole Lawani <lawani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks John.
> I had tested with a small (c. 100 transactions) segment of the larger
> file but it still freezes.
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:28 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> > If you made a large CSV it might be https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795383.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 28, 2018, at 2:19 PM, klawani <lawani at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > > A few days ago I was able to do my first successful CSV import on my GNC 3.3
> > > installation (MacOS 10.12.6 - Sierra).
> > > I then spent a week preparing a much larger import. The CSV file is
> > > basically the same structure as was used for the earlier successful run - in
> > > fact I'm using the settings I saved at the time.
> > >
> > > But now the CSV import doesn't work. When I click "next" on the "transaction
> > > information" window everything stops...it freezes. I've done this several
> > > times and left it to run for hours at one point so I'm quite sure it's not
> > > just being slow.
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be appreciated. Because I'm having to forcefully terminate
> > > the application, each time I restart it it fails to obtain the file lock and
> > > I select the "open anyway" option - could this be relevant?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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