[GNC] Import from Quicken to GnuCash not Working

[Joseph Keithley]

I had a 150mb Quicken 2016 file to import.  The only way I got it to work
was to export the file into yearly qif files by account.  It took a long
time and the final gnucash file required significant hand editing to match
up transactions to the right categories and transfer accounts.  Good luck!

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 3:56 AM Tom R <tom.route36 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to import a QIF file from Quicken 2016 to GnuCash 5.8 on a
> Windows 11 system.  It's a 14 MB QIF file with over 30 years of data.
> At the first step of the Import process, there are 56 issues reported,
> all the same: "Could not parse price line".  But I just click Next to
> continue and go on to the next step.  I go thru all the remaining
> steps of the Import process basically just accepting all the default
> account name mappings.  For the selected currency, I'm using USD (US
> Dollar).  At the step for Tradable Commodities, GnuCash appears to
> have already filled in all the fields (Name, Ticker, Exchange); so at
> that step I just click Next to continue.  And at that point, I click
> the Start Import button to continue.  Then the actual Import process
> begins.  In the first few minutes, the progress bar gets to around 10%
> of the way across the window.  Then things slow down dramatically.
>
> Over the next 2 to 3 hours the progress bar eventually gets to around
> maybe 20% of the way across the window.  I'm not sure how far the
> progress bar actually gets; since I've never been sitting in front of
> the screen the whole time to see how far it does get.  But when I come
> back to the computer to check on it, the GnuCash window has closed,
> with no status or error message on the screen.  And when I go and
> check to see if a .gnucash file was created, there is a file sitting
> there.  But it's extremely small -- just 3 KB in size.  And that's
> clearly a problem; since the original QIF file is 14 MB.
>
> I'm a brand new user with GnuCash.  This is the first time I'm really
> trying to use it.  And I've tried this Import process now 3 times --
> all with the same result.  So if anyone out there has some idea what's
> going on, I'd appreciate any help or suggestions you could provide.
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