[GNC] Import QIF error (from Android to Windows)

AC gnucash at acarver.net
Sat Jan 19 15:45:07 EST 2019


On 2019-01-19 12:32, David Cousens wrote:
> Have you tried any of the suggestions in the above posts? If so what were the
> results?
> 
> There won't be a magic solution and no-one is going to be able to diagnose
> the problem without additional information or if it really gets desperate a
> copy of the .qif.  file you are trying to import. 
> 
> Have you looked at the GnuCash log files? 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging. Was there anything indicating a
> problem?
> 
> Have you started GnuCash with the debug switch? ( start with $gnucash
> --debug at a terminal prompt  this gives more detail in the log files).
> Have you examined your file to find out whether it deviates from the QIF
> file formatting?https://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/qif-doc/QIF-doc.htm
> Were there any obvious deviations?
> 
> Try these and post your results and someone stands a chance of being able to
> help. 
> 
> The only major changes to the qif import between 2.6.19 and 3.1 were a shift
> from the guile1.8 to guile2.0 library, a change in the format of an example
> qif file and some changes to the matching of dates. There was nothing
> obvious that affected the parsing of the file in the commits that I could
> find.
> 
> David Cousens

This might be of interest from the GnuCash Android change log:

Version 2.3.0 (2018-01-10)
Improved #696: QIF files are now always zipped regardless of the export
destination



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