[GNC] Importing QIF Files with Reminder Transactions causes GnuCash to Crash

[Tom Route-36]

Hi all,

I'm a new user to GnuCash and this mailing list; but I think I found a 
bug in the program regarding the Import of QIF Files.  I hope this is 
the proper place to report it.  Anyway, here's the issue.

The QIF file of interest was exported from Quicken 2016 Home & Business. 
  Among the many exported Quicken accounts there are several Brokerage 
accounts.  And in some of those Brokerage accounts there are a few 
transactions that Quicken refers to as Reminder Transactions.  It seems 
that the GnuCash Import process can't handle QIF files that include such 
Reminder Transactions.

This is what happens.  I'll select that QIF file to import it. And 
everything appears to start out just fine.  It loads normally.  And I'm 
able to go thru all the normal prompts for accounts and stock holdings, 
matching QIF and GnuCash accounts, Income and Expense categories, etc. 
When it gets to the QIF Import step, I'll start the Import process; and 
it also starts out just fine.  But then midway thru that Import process 
(maybe 60% across the progress bar) GnuCash just crashes and closes 
without any warning.  There's no error message or pop-up window to 
indicate what went wrong.  The GnuCash program just completely closes 
altogether without any indication of why or what happened.

To be clear, I'm not reporting this here because I need any help.  I've 
already found a solution for my own needs.  I fixed it by going back 
into Quicken and removing those Reminder Transactions from the Brokerage 
accounts.  After removing them I re-exported all the accounts to an 
updated QIF file.  And that updated QIF file (without the offending 
Reminder Transactions) can now be imported into GnuCash just fine.  What 
I want to do here is to let the right folks know about this issue; since 
it causes GnuCash to crash and close completely without any warning. 
That seems like kind of a user-unfriendly way of handling an Import error.

Anyway, if you want any additional details about this just let me know. 
I'm happy to help.  FYI, I confirmed this problem with the latest 
GnuCash v5.12 on Windows 11 Home v24H2.

Tom