I’ve had no issue exporting and importing an account tree myself. I see you’re using a comma as part of an account name. While changing the separator and using quotes should work, I try to avoid commas in CSV data as a rule.
Try using something else like `-` (hyphen), `–` (en dash), `—` (em dash), `~` (tilde), or `_` (underscore) and see if that works without quotes and with the standard comma separator or CamelCase the names if that isn’t an eye sore for you. Note, I’d suspect a bug, but maybe there is a good reason why it failed. Hopefully someone more familiar with the importer’s quirks will chime in. Regards, Adrien > On Aug 4, 2019, at 5:03 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’m using GC version 3.5 on iMac with OS X High Sierra, set up to use UTF-8 > by default. > > I’ve created a GC file with accounts for each member of my Rotary club in the > form: > > Assets:Current Assets:Member:Surname, Forename > > and thought I should be able to copy these Accounts to another GC file using > "Export Account Tree to CSV” and “Import Accounts from CSV” on the respective > files. > > After my initial experiments failed, I ran a Google search, and found advice > from 2017 that it’s necessary to use a semicolon as a separator, and to use > quotes on export. > > These adjustments didn’t resolve the problem, which is that an attempt to > import fails to get beyond the “Import Account Preview…” phase. The header > labels appear in the window, but none of the other content of the file. > > I had hoped that I could edit the CSV file to include only the member’s > individual accounts, and in due course to create CSV transaction files to > speed the chore of adding a set of identical transactions for each member. > > Presumably someone out there is using CSV export/import successfully? > > Regards, > > Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
