On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:07 PM crazylyle <l...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> So you are suggesting reducing the size of our QIF files to a small > debuggable size. > > My QIF file is 653,808 lines long. About 2^20. So just using a binary > search would > take at least 20 trials to find the first line that it fails on. Not > exactly something that > seems practical. And that's just for my input file. > > And of course, just feeding a partial file might produce a failure, but a > failure of a > different kind, so this won't necessarily get us anywhere. > What bisections or limited imports have you tried? If you haven't already, try going into Quicken and exporting one day, one month, one year, one account... a smaller test batch and see if you get the same error. I know years ago (maybe 2012 or earlier) when I switched from Quicken to GnuCash I found that Quicken created many odd little problems that were just not worth the effort to clean up. SO I exported all my data (going back to about 1989) into one QIF file that I never bothered to import, but the data is still there if I need it. As you know, QIF is a text file, so you can search for transactions with a text editor. Then I went back and exported just the previous one or two years from Quicken (so for you it might be 2019 and 2020-to-date) and imported only that data into GnuCash. In order to make the import work its best, I used a multi-step process, where I created the most-used accounts first, did a few test imports, fixed a few small things in Quicken, then did my import. I cleaned up the few remaining import problems in GnuCash and haven't looked back. UNFORTUNATELY for you, most of us who make the conversion never go back and try the latest (there's no need) so the developers depend upon folks who encounter problems to fix them as they arise. > 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 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.
