Wow! Thank you John for your amazingly quick response. I've been desperately trying to figure my way through this all day today. You replied to my inquiry 13 minutes after I posted it. And 25 minutes after that, I have been able to manually edit the scheme file as discussed in comment 5 on bug https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799492. Specifically it means I made this change to the "/usr/share/guile/site/3.0/gnucash/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm" file in Arch Linux:
diff qif-to-gnc.scm.bak qif-to-gnc.scm 437c437 < (if (not (or (qif-xtn:mark xtn) (or (null? splits) (null? (cdr splits))))) --- > (if (not (or (qif-xtn:mark xtn) (null? splits))) After making the change I started GnuCash version 5.10 and retested importing the QIF file. IT WORKED!!! Thank you so much! Now, I'm just curious, how long will it take for that change to be available based on the version that is received when installing the application with pacman? On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > See https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799492 > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On Mar 1, 2025, at 19:42, Elliot Huntington <elliot.hunting...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For many years I have been happily using GnuCash (unsure of which version) > on Linux Mint. I just reinstalled my OS, now using Arch Linux, and > installed GnuCash (5.10) from the package repositories with pacman. > > The whole time I've been using GnuCash, I've also been using GnuCash > Android. I know this is a separate project that appears to have been > abandoned. But the app has worked well enough for my needs. Usually I enter > transactions in GnuCash Android. At the end of the the month I export the > transactions in QIF format, email them to myself, and then import them into > GnuCash on my linux computer. > > My several attempts to do this today have failed at the point of importing > the QIF file into the new version of GnuCash (5.10) running on Arch Linux. > I tried importing 3 different QIF files (two of them with nearly a month > worth of transactions in them, and one test file with only a single > transaction in it). > > Once I realized this simply is not working, I decided to install GnuCash > (5.10) on my Macbook Pro (Apple Silicon). Again, I tried to import the QIF > files, but the transactions that are in the QIF files are simply not loaded > into the application. I can't find them anywhere in the application. > > GnuCash (5.10) is not reporting any errors. In fact, the GUI leads me to > think that everything is working just fine, except for the fact that I can > not see any of the transactions that should have been successfully > imported. > > I decided to try and debug this problem myself by creating a single test > transaction with my GnuCash Android application, and exporting that file > like I normally do. Here is the content of that file: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > !Account > NAccrued Expenses:USBank Credit Card > ^ > !Type:CCard > D2025/3/1 > PTest > M > SAccrued Expenses:Lessons:Piano > $-1.00 > ^ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Then on my Arch Linux machine, after some googling, I found that I could > watch the trace logs of the application with this command: > > tail -f /tmp/gnucash.trace > > So I started to tail the trace and went through the process of importing > the transactions again: > > 1. Import QIF files > * click the Next button. > 2. Select a QIF file to load > * select the file to import > * click the Next button > 3. Load QIF files > * click the Start button > * GnuCash shows the "Loading completed" message > * trace log shows the following message: > * 20:13:45 WARN <gnc.scm> qif-parse:parse-date/format: format is y-d-m > but date is [2025/3/1]. > * click the Next button > 4. Set a date format for this QIF file > * select the "y-m-d" option in the date format select options > * click the Next button > 5. QIF files you have loaded > * the file I selected is displayed in the list of files that have been > loaded > * click the Next button > 6. Accounts and stock holdings > * click the Next button > 7. Match QIF accounts with GnuCash accounts > * QIF account name displayed as "Accrued Expenses:USBank Credit Card" > * GnuCash account name displayed as "Accrued Expenses:USBank Credit > Card" > * click the Next button > 8. Income and Expense categories > * click the Next button > 9. Match QIF categories with GnuCash accounts > * QIF category name displayed as "Accrued Expenses:Lessons:Piano" > * GnuCash account name displayed as "Accrued Expenses:Lessons:Piano" > * click the Next button > 10. Choose the QIF file currency > * select the "USD (US Dollar)" option in the currency select options > * click the Next button > 11. QIF Import > * When you press the Start Button, GnuCash will import your QIF data. > If there are no errors or warnings, you will automatically proceed to the > next step. Otherwise, the details will be shown below for your review. > * click the "Start Import" button > * the trace log shows the following message: > * 20:27:48 WARN <gnc.scm> Probable error: the new account tree has no > transactions. > 12. Update your GnuCash accounts > * No errors or warnings are displayed. The application shows the normal > 3 sentences starting with 'Click "Apply" to ...', 'Click "Back" to ...', > 'Click "Cancel" to ...' > * click the Apply button > 13. Qif Import Summary > * click the Close button > > At this point, GnuCash has an asterisk next to the file name in the title > in the application window, indicating there are unsaved changes. So, I > press CTRL+S to save the application state and the asterisk goes away, > indicated the file has been saved. > > But then when I go to look for my test transaction, I can not find it > anywhere in either of the accounts: "Accrued Expenses:USBank Credit Card", > or "Accrued Expenses:Lessons:Piano". > > The transaction is simply not imported correctly. > > So to summarize the output of the trace file, here is what I see was tailed > to the logs during the test: > > tail -f /tmp/gnucash.trace > * 20:13:45 WARN <gnc.scm> qif-parse:parse-date/format: format is y-d-m but > date is [2025/3/1]. > * 20:27:48 WARN <gnc.scm> Probable error: the new account tree has no > transactions. > > When I try the same test on MacOS, I get the same results with the > exception that nothing shows up at all in the trace logs. I don't know if > I'm watching the correct file on the Mac. I'm trying to trace the logs in > the file "/var/folders/w9/<some_apparent_hashing_directory>/T/gnucash.trace > > Anyway, I'm really curious what I need to do to get this working again. I > don't know if I need to downgrade to some previous version of GnuCash, or > if I need to install some other packages on my Arch Linux machine. > > If anyone can help me get things working again, I will really appreciate > your help. I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't import my > transactions in a QIF file anymore. > > Thank you in advance, > Elliot > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
