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

[Sherlock]

Hi Tom,

Welcome to GnuCash.

The issue has already been reported:

     https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798423


Regards,

Sherlock


On 8/12/25 7:42 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
> 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