[GNC] QIF Import Fails

[Cricket Onebit]

Is it using Retained Earnings for uncategorized transactions?

Quicken used to have a report for uncategorized transactions. Years ago
when I tried to convert (then life got busy), uncategorized transactions
caused many problems.

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On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 03:58, Art Chimes <arts.online at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the troubleshooting suggestions. Adrien pointed out the
> ability to filter register displays, for which I am thankful. As a new
> user, I hadn't discovered that tool yet.
>
> He also suggested searching to see if the transaction ended up
> imported into some other account. Which is exactly what happened.
> Instead of going into the checking account where it was supposed to
> go, this transaction -- and many others I thought I had failed to
> import -- ended up in "Equity:Retained Earnings." I suspect "retained
> earnings" has some specific accounting definition, but I don't know
> what it is or what transactions actually belong in that account. I do
> know that it was not my intention to put those transactions in that
> account, and I am pretty sure I did not assign any transactions to
> that account in the import process.
>
> In 2009, a user filed a bug report in Bugzilla on just this behavior.
> (https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603761). Another user
> replied to the bug report, "The importer is assuming these are opening
> balance transactions. Could you explain why this type of transaction
> is legitimate for some other purpose?" My transaction involved a bank
> account interest payment. (In Quicken there is no separate income
> account so the bank account has an interest payment that appears as if
> by magic; it can be credited to the account or transferred to another
> account.)
>
> I can manually move these transactions, one-by-one, to where they
> should be. But going forward, do I just have to resign myself to a lot
> of QIF editing? Since I imagine that a lot of QIF importer users are
> migrating from Quicken, perhaps some Quicken-specific warnings or
> something could be considered?
>
> Thanks again,
> Art
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:25:00 -0500
> > From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] QIF Import Fails
> > Message-ID: <FE5D5ACC-C7DA-46BF-86F5-1E128D7C36E6 at lusfiber.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=utf-8
> >
> > Any time I?m in a pickle and can?t see a transaction that should be
> there, I check that the register is not set to a filtered view. The
> transaction might be hidden for some reason. I also check one of the
> registers for the other accounts involved in the transaction.
> >
> > There is also a very powerful Find feature that you can even use regex
> with to find it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > > On Apr 3, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Art Chimes <arts.online at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > !Type:Bank
> > > D7/ 1/97
> > > U5.32
> > > T5.32
> > > CX
> > > PInterest Earned
> > > L_IntInc
> > > ^
> > >
> > > Above is an example of a transaction that is failing to import. The
> > > QIF export is from Quicken 2000 via Windows.
> > >
> > > I've had problems with imports before, but eventually figured out the
> > > problem. This one has me stymied. I  successfully imported
> > > transactions from 1998-present, but the older ones aren't cooperating.
> > >
> > > The importer process seems to work ok, concluding with the encouraging
> > > notice, "QIF Import Completed" However, the transaction does not
> > > appear in the account register.
> > >
> > > One possible clue: I get a screen that asks me to match this
> > > transaction with one of two others that have the same
> > > date/amount/payee, even though the transaction doesn't appear in the
> > > account.
> > >
> > > This is actually one of numerous exports from the same Quicken file.
> > > Some work; others don't, and my troubleshooting hasn't gotten me
> > > anywhere. From the "about" screen: Version: 3.4; Build ID: 3.4+
> > > (2018-12-30)
> > >
> > > Thanks to the community for your help!
> > >
> > > Art
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