[GNC] Unable to import QIF or QFX.

[Cricket Onebit]

Watch the order of Q and X, and O vs Q. Lots of similar file names.

On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 21:42, Evan Platt <evan at espphotography.com> wrote:

> Wow I feel like an idiot. Attention to detail LOL. Quicken is
> exporting a QXF file. Gnucash is importing QFX. So my guess is to
> export from quicken to Gnucash I have to do account by account with
> QIF? Or is there some other way?
>
> So Importing one of my QIF files (my main QIF file) - file looks good.
> About 2 MB. When importing, it just says failed. It's at the final QIF
> import screen. No details on the log :(
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 5:44 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Evan
> >
> > OFX/QFX files can be edited or examined with a text editor. Usual caution
> > about line endings and text editors between Linux and Windows
> environments
> > apply
> >
> >  First check to see if the exported file from Quicken had any content. If
> > nothing is coming up after selecting the file and pressing the import
> button
> > then either the file has no content or GnuCash is failing to parse the
> > content correctly.  OFX/QFX files are
> >
> > It is unlikely that Quicken would release a program that doesn't write
> > correct QFX files but it is always remotely possible. They should be
> > readable as OFX files as well, they just contain extra tags for
> proprietary
> > information which is ignored on import to GnuCash
> >
> > The latter could result from corruption of the file during
> writing/editing
> > copying as well as software bugs. Unclosed or missing tags are one
> > possibility
> >
> > The QFX/OFX formats are described in the following
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFX_(file_format)
> > http://www.ofx.net/downloads/OFX%202.2.pdf
> >
> > and some info about QIF
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format.
> >
> > There have been no major problems reported recently with OFX/QFX or QIF
> > import at the level of stopping an import. I have imported OFX/QFX files
> > from my bank in 3.5 on Linux Mint in the last day without any problems
> and
> > import has been working for the the recent 2.6 versions. Less sure about
> > QIF. If the files look OK then it may be a Windows only bug.
> >
> > David Cousens
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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