[GNC] Importing QIF files contain no transactions

[Sherlock]

QIF import is known to be broken in 5.10.  For example, see:

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799492
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799494

Regards,

Sherlock


On 1/21/25 8:31 AM, Roger Shilcock wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm new to GnuCash but am looking to migrate over to it from the 2002 
> version of Quicken I currently run on my Windows 10 desktop.
> Initially, I installed it Version 5.5+(2023-12-16) on my wife's laptop 
> running Linux Mint V22 to try it out, exported all the accounts as QIF's 
> from Quicken and imported them into GnuCash.  That worked fine so I then 
> installed the Windows version V5.10+(2024-12-14) on my desktop.
> However, when I go through exactly the same process to import the same 
> bunch of QIF files into the Windows program, the imported accounts show 
> up but no transactions are imported so I just have a bunch of empty 
> accounts.  What I have had to do is import the same QIF files into the 
> Linux version on my wife's laptop, save the resulting main GnuCash data 
> file, copy it over to my PC and load it into the Windows version of 
> GnuCash.  From there, everything works as it should but why doesn't the 
> import on the Windows version pull in any transactions?
>