Regarding. The interest deposits, I think that Quicken could have assigned an "Interest" category to allow you to differentiate from other deposits, but the fact that it didn't require such is why it sometimes is a challenge to import data from Quicken.
David Carlson On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 2:57 AM Art Chimes <arts.onl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the troubleshooting suggestions. Adrien pointed out the > ability to filter register displays, for which I am thankful. As a new > user, I hadn't discovered that tool yet. > > He also suggested searching to see if the transaction ended up > imported into some other account. Which is exactly what happened. > Instead of going into the checking account where it was supposed to > go, this transaction -- and many others I thought I had failed to > import -- ended up in "Equity:Retained Earnings." I suspect "retained > earnings" has some specific accounting definition, but I don't know > what it is or what transactions actually belong in that account. I do > know that it was not my intention to put those transactions in that > account, and I am pretty sure I did not assign any transactions to > that account in the import process. > > In 2009, a user filed a bug report in Bugzilla on just this behavior. > (https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603761). Another user > replied to the bug report, "The importer is assuming these are opening > balance transactions. Could you explain why this type of transaction > is legitimate for some other purpose?" My transaction involved a bank > account interest payment. (In Quicken there is no separate income > account so the bank account has an interest payment that appears as if > by magic; it can be credited to the account or transferred to another > account.) > > I can manually move these transactions, one-by-one, to where they > should be. But going forward, do I just have to resign myself to a lot > of QIF editing? Since I imagine that a lot of QIF importer users are > migrating from Quicken, perhaps some Quicken-specific warnings or > something could be considered? > > Thanks again, > Art > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:25:00 -0500 > > From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > > To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] QIF Import Fails > > Message-ID: <fe5d5acc-c7da-46bf-86f5-1e128d7c3...@lusfiber.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > Any time I?m in a pickle and can?t see a transaction that should be > there, I check that the register is not set to a filtered view. The > transaction might be hidden for some reason. I also check one of the > registers for the other accounts involved in the transaction. > > > > There is also a very powerful Find feature that you can even use regex > with to find it. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > > On Apr 3, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Art Chimes <arts.onl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > !Type:Bank > > > D7/ 1/97 > > > U5.32 > > > T5.32 > > > CX > > > PInterest Earned > > > L_IntInc > > > ^ > > > > > > Above is an example of a transaction that is failing to import. The > > > QIF export is from Quicken 2000 via Windows. > > > > > > I've had problems with imports before, but eventually figured out the > > > problem. This one has me stymied. I successfully imported > > > transactions from 1998-present, but the older ones aren't cooperating. > > > > > > The importer process seems to work ok, concluding with the encouraging > > > notice, "QIF Import Completed" However, the transaction does not > > > appear in the account register. > > > > > > One possible clue: I get a screen that asks me to match this > > > transaction with one of two others that have the same > > > date/amount/payee, even though the transaction doesn't appear in the > > > account. > > > > > > This is actually one of numerous exports from the same Quicken file. > > > Some work; others don't, and my troubleshooting hasn't gotten me > > > anywhere. From the "about" screen: Version: 3.4; Build ID: 3.4+ > > > (2018-12-30) > > > > > > Thanks to the community for your help! > > > > > > Art > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.