[GNC] Importing QIF files contain no transactions

[Roger Shilcock]

Thanks for the quick reply John.  Good to know that I wasn't doing 
anything wrong.  At least I was able to do the import on my wife's Linux 
laptop and then move the resulting data file over to my PC.

Regards.
On 21/01/2025 17:14, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>> On Jan 21, 2025, at 08:31, Roger Shilcock <shilcor at gmail.com> 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?
>
> QIF import is broken in 5.10. It’s fixed in git so you can either use 
> a recent nightly build from 
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/stable/ 
> <https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win/stable/> or GnuCash 5.9.
>
> Regards,
> John ralls


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Roger Shilcock
Email:shilcor at gmail.com