Unfortunately I am not conversant with debugging releases 3.x of Gnucash. I am still in the old school.
I did forget one other thing though. If you do anything through a network connection, which conceivably could even include a flash drive, Window firewall might gratuitously block you. Yesterday it blocked VNC from listening to the radio in my Windows 7 computer David Carlson On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 8:39 AM Bennie Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > David - thanks for your input. Regarding chunking the imports, that's > exactly what I'm doing and am making some progress. My primary struggle > right now is that GNUCash doesn't appear to be creating a debug file. I > understand c:\ is a bad location for a user file but I wanted a location > with minimum folders involved to ensure I was looking in the right place. > > Any suggestions on why the below commands are not creating a debug file > appreciated: > > gnucash.exe --debug --tofile="c:\gnucash.log" > > gnucash.exe --debug > > as I understand the last command line should create a default tracefile > but I don't see it either. > > Thanks > On 1/4/2020 8:33 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > First, in Windows 10 (or any OS, for that matter) c:\ is a bad choice for > user file location. Try directing your error file to your desktop. > > Second, hopefully you have put your data file in a folder under your > documents or some other user location. > > Third, if you have read other user suggestions about importing from > Quicken, start with tiny chunks of transactions to see how it goes. > > Fourth, in some cases it is easier to edit transactions in Quicken before > exporting. > > Fifth, consider only importing a short segment of recent history and leave > old history in Quicken. > > Sixth, back up everything first and test with disposable copies of files. > > Seventh, if you still have specific questions, ask here giving all > details except personal information. > > Good luck > > David Carlson > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 4:33 AM Bennie Gibson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to move from quicken to gnucash and have had mixed results >> with importing qif files from quicklen. I've been able to isolate a >> couple of causes of import failures by trial and error exclusion of >> specific items but it appears I have several failures to deal with and >> no messages to indicate the cause. I tried starting gnucash with >> --debug --logto="c:\gnucash.log" it appears gnucash is recognizing >> the debug command as it takes longer to start but I'm not seeing any log >> or trace file created. I've also tried leaving out the logto command and >> letting gnucash create a default file but cannot locate that either. >> I've looked in AppData\Local\Temp and found no new files. >> >> Any suggestions appreciated. I feel like I'm close but with several >> years of data, I need something to assist me me excluding the items >> causing import failure. >> >> Thank you >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected] 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.
