[GNC] Struggling with Quicken import

[Tom Teixeira]

I recently went through the process of importing from Quicken and
encountered some errors. I exported different date ranges to narrow the
problem down and eventually hand edited the lines in the QIF file that
had problems. In my case, there were strings of non-alphanumeric
characters in the file. I would have to re-export the QIF files to get a
better idea where. Since I am running gnucash on Mac OS and the Quicken
export files were from Windows, the line numbers in gnucash's error
message were off. If I converted the DOS end of line sequence
(carriage-return/line-feed) to Mac OS, the line numbers were correct
which made it easier to find the line in the QIF file that needed
correction.

There was one complex transaction with many splits (I don't remember the
Quicken term for this) that I just completely avoided in the Quicken
exports and then manually added that transaction in with Gnucash. If
this had been more than a one-time task for me, I would have spent more
time trying to fix this on the Quicken side -- maybe I had an empty or
non-existent name for some account that had been automatically generated
using Quicken's direct connect.