I appreciate your responses to my postings -- you really helped me find why gnucash did not like my particular QIF file.
But once I got past that, it's clear that gnucash is badly mangling the meaning of the transactions I have. I end up with an overall balance of -2 million. And my investment accounts (like my IRA) with multiple mutual funds are particularly mangled. Plus treating categories as accounts makes it hard to concentrate on just the account balances. And it seems that when I write a check from my checking account to Discover to cover my balance, it ends up being creditted twice, so instead of a zero balance, I end up knowing that I paid $518K over the past 27 years. While I want to be able to find that out (maybe), it's not something I need to know all the time. (I realize this is a problem of some kind with double entry bookkeeping, but that means everything like this is probably wrong.) So gnucash does not look like a suitable replacement for my use of Quicken. KMyMoney seems to be closer to being correct, so I'm going to see if I can fix the problems I'm running into with that, and see if that works better. jim On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 11:47 +0800, Christopher Lam wrote: > Qif importer does have special handling for empty categories. Changing this > is likely to break things elsewhere though. > > It would be useful to attach the minimal qif file from selective qif export > from quicken, and insert screenshots from quicken too. Maybe best file bug > in Bugzilla. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
