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 a
Okay, here's a couple simple test QIF files.
In test1, I have two accounts. A Bank Checking account
that starts with an opening balance of $1000. A credit
card account that starts with a $0 balance.
I pay $400 from the checking account to the credit card
account. In the QIF file, since Quicken
This second QIF file illustrates the original problem I had --
it simply "Failed" with no errors or warnings or messages
of any kind (that I can find). Adding the debug print to
print each transaction as it is processed in qif-to-gnc.scm
showed it was a transaction with no category listed.
So t
Thank you, very useful.
We can already try fix the empty-category issue to allow importing, but is
likely to cause other problems.
The internal transfers issue is much more difficult. The QIF importer
attempts to detect duplicates whereby the datafile already has QIF
transactions, but not for int