David T. you nailed it. I put the file in a word processor and changed all of the dates from MM/DD/YYYY to MM-DD-YYYY and it worked beautifly. Thanks much.
Paul On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:50 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Those don’t sound like large files, so it sounds like there might be > something wrong. Do they ALL hang, or only some of them? > > I will admit that I am not one to advise on importing, as I don’t do it > much. That being said, I would take a close look at the source > files—especially the date fields, as GnuCash can be somewhat finicky around > variably-formed dates. > > David T. > > On Jan 21, 2018, at 6:59 PM, Paul Konnersman <konners...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestions David T. > > Each of the files that I have been trying to import contains three weeks > of transactions from one bank account. They are all between 1kb and 3kb. > > Paul > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:15 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Moreover, any import process can take a long time to complete (with no >> indication of progress). If you are importing a large csv file (as you >> might be doing if you are migrating in to GnuCash), it can be especially >> time consuming. Five or ten minutes is not unheard of. >> >> Try again and wait it out, as David C. suggests. >> >> If it really gets hung up, you would be well-advised to break the import >> up into smaller portions, thus reducing the time to process any given >> subset, and also increasing the likelihood of finding any erroneous data >> that might be causing a glitch. Heck, you may want to do this anyway. >> >> David T. >> >> > On Jan 21, 2018, at 4:45 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Not sure how you know it is 'frozen' after such a short time. GnuCash >> does >> > not have any 'activity' indicator. Try giving it several minutes. >> > >> > David C >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Paul Konnersman <konners...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> I have just made the decision to use Gnucash. So far I have >> successfully >> >> imported my chart of accounts from a csv-file and attempted to import a >> >> csv-file of transaction data. After 20-30 seconds of the transaction >> import >> >> Gnucash freezes and I have to force quit. Any suggestions will be >> >> appreciated. >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> Running Gnucash 2.6.19 with OSX High Sierra on a Macbook Pro >> >> -- >> >> *Paul M. Konnersman* >> >> *konners...@gmail.com <konners...@gmail.com>* >> >> *781-639-0616* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> gnucash-user mailing list >> >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> >> ----- >> >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnucash-user mailing list >> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> > ----- >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> > > > -- > *Paul M. Konnersman* > *konners...@gmail.com <konners...@gmail.com>* > *781-639-0616 <(781)%20639-0616>* > > > -- *Paul M. Konnersman* *konners...@gmail.com <konners...@gmail.com>* *781-639-0616* _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
