[GNC] Error importing quicken 2017 qif / qfx

[David T.]

Hello,

In fact, the error is quite clear: something in the QIF file is not as the importer expects. As another David has noted, the QIF importer itself is functional, and has worked for many users before you. Unfortunately, in this case, that erro message is not particularly helpful, as your QIF file probably has a lot of transactions in it, any one of which could have caused the error. Locating such errors is, quite simply, a challenge. 

You might open your QIF file and try to determine whether anything looks out of order there, although that is difficult.

You don’t say where you are located, but one of the most common situations that causes this error is date formatting. GnuCash attempts to guess whether you follow US-style date (MM-DD-YYYY) or European-style (DD-MM-YYYY), but often it fails to guess correctly. I believe it defaults to US-style (but I am sure the experts will correct me on this).

One way forward for you at this time would be to try using a subset of your data to test the import first; if you can figure out how to get a smaller file to import, it will make additional imports easier. Many actually recommend using this piece-by-piece approach for import for this very reason.

David


> On Sep 16, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Diogo Maciel <diogo.translator at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, hope someone can help me move out from Quicken
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> I tried exporting my data from Quicken in both qif and qfx. The qif importer
> gives me the error below
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> Qfx will only show an empty window
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> My file has multiple securities and currencies, so this may be relevant. I
> understand that with such a generic error one may need more information,
> which I can surely provide.
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> Thanks!
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