[GNC] Unable to import QIF or QFX.

[David Cousens]

Evan,

You should in principle be able to use either format, QFX or QIF (but
obviously not with each other).  QFX should be a bit easier to follow if you
have to check the file content out as it is tagged and the QIF format is a
bit more obscure but QIF seems to be used by people migrating from Quicken. 

I have just run an import of a test QIF file I used while updating the
documentation into 3.5 on Linux without any problems but it is a fairly
simple minimal file. 

If you have not found it yet, the following wiki page:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Quicken_Migration should be helpful
particularly for strategies for minimising problems.   Particularly useful
should be the comments about relating categories to GnuCash accounts and
presetting up the account structure to match the categories used in Quicken.
The date format is a common problem with importing. Check the file content
for the date format used and choose appropriately in the import wizard. You
may need to describe in more detail exactly at which steps in the import
wizard the process is failing and which steps complete successfully. There
is an initial file loading into the importer followed by processes to match
categories in the data to the GnuCash account structure and finally the
loading of the data into Gnucash. If you can specify which of the steps in
the LH panel of the import wizard are completeing successfully, it will help
with locating where the problem is occurring.

You can also start GnuCash in debugging mode with --debug and /or  --extra
switches at a command line which will increase the logged information. Don't
change the logging configuration log.conf at this stage unless one of the
main developers (John Ralls /Geert Janssens or Derek) asks you too. 

See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging,
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile for locating errors.  

If the QIF file does not load and you don't get to the following steps in
the QIF Import wizard, it is likely to be a problem with the file format.
otherwise it will be the matching of the Quicken structure to the structure
in GnuCash.

David Cousens



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