Indeed.  QIF treats the L[XX] as Asset/Liability account and LXX as an
Income/Expense account (Category).
-derek

On Sun, January 7, 2024 6:53 pm, Geoff wrote:
> Hi Fred
>
> At a guess I think the problem is the square brackets "[]" surrounding
> the Account Names - try removing them.
>
> This:
>  > L[Expenses:fees]
>
> Should be:
>  > LExpenses:fees
>
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =====
>
> On 7/01/2024 2:01 pm, Fred Tydeman wrote:
>> Running GC 4.14 on Linux
>> During an import of a QIF file, I am getting "Failed" on the QIF Import
>> screen.
>> The message at the top of the box says there should be details shown
>> below
>> for my review.  However, there are no details about the failure.
>>
>> Suggestions on where I should look for the details of the failure?
>>
>> The entire QIF file is:
>>
>> !Account
>> NAssets:Investments
>> TInvst
>> ^
>> !Type:Invst
>> ^
>> D02/26/2021
>> NMiscExp
>> CX
>> T0.12
>> Mfee
>> L[Expenses:fees]
>> ^
>> D03/31/2021
>> NMiscExp
>> CX
>> T0.24
>> Mfee
>> L[Expenses:fees]
>> ^
>> D04/30/2021
>> NMiscExp
>> CX
>> T0.38
>> Mfee
>> L[Expenses:fees]
>> ^
>> D05/28/2021
>> NMiscExp
>> CX
>> T0.51
>> Mfee
>> L[Expenses:fees]
>> ^
>> D06/30/2021
>> NMiscExp
>> CX
>> T0.64
>> Mfee
>> L[Expenses:fees]
>> ^
>>
>> As an experiment,
>> I changed
>>   L[Expenses:fees]
>> to
>>   LFees
>>
>> and that imported just fine (although I had to pick the mapping of Fees
>> to
>> Expenses:Fees during the import process).
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