Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] QIF file import failed -- but no errors or warnings

2020-02-21 Thread James Peterson
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

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] QIF file import failed -- but no errors or warnings

2020-02-21 Thread James Peterson
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

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] QIF file import failed -- but no errors or warnings

2020-02-21 Thread James Peterson
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

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] QIF file import failed -- but no errors or warnings

2020-02-21 Thread Christopher Lam
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