[GNC] QIF file import still doesn't work with Gnucash 3.10

[Fross, Michael]

I have to keep importing the same QFX file over and over until I get
“nothing to import” message. If I don’t, it seems to miss transactions in
the file. Not sure about QIF, but Maybe it’s similar.

Michael

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:53 PM Alan <alangnuc at bigtowers.net> wrote:

> Took the latest activity on one Chase credit card account and downloaded
> in QIF
> format. Each time, Gnucash went through the motions, but never prompted
> for a
> target account. Then (for only 7 transactions), took a few minutes and then
> brought up a screen attempting to match thousands of 10 year old
> transactions,
> which appear to be earlier failed QIF import attempts.
>
>
>
> But none of the NEW transactions (imported three times now) were read. And
> a
> transaction matching screen is totally wrong. These are new transactions so
> there's NOTHING to match. Same thing with the previous failed import
> attempts.
> No transactions to match.
>
>
>
> This is probably why Gnucash blew the QIF import from Quicken the first few
> times (was also broken in 3.08). Quicken's QIF export went nowhere.
> Thousands
> more transactions ignored, since Gnucash is not looking for any target
> account,
> and there could never be anything to "match." This makes it impossible to
> import
> previously audited, corrected, and reconciled transactions from Quicken.
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>