I had a 150mb Quicken 2016 file to import. The only way I got it to work was to export the file into yearly qif files by account. It took a long time and the final gnucash file required significant hand editing to match up transactions to the right categories and transfer accounts. Good luck!
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 3:56 AM Tom R <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to import a QIF file from Quicken 2016 to GnuCash 5.8 on a > Windows 11 system. It's a 14 MB QIF file with over 30 years of data. > At the first step of the Import process, there are 56 issues reported, > all the same: "Could not parse price line". But I just click Next to > continue and go on to the next step. I go thru all the remaining > steps of the Import process basically just accepting all the default > account name mappings. For the selected currency, I'm using USD (US > Dollar). At the step for Tradable Commodities, GnuCash appears to > have already filled in all the fields (Name, Ticker, Exchange); so at > that step I just click Next to continue. And at that point, I click > the Start Import button to continue. Then the actual Import process > begins. In the first few minutes, the progress bar gets to around 10% > of the way across the window. Then things slow down dramatically. > > Over the next 2 to 3 hours the progress bar eventually gets to around > maybe 20% of the way across the window. I'm not sure how far the > progress bar actually gets; since I've never been sitting in front of > the screen the whole time to see how far it does get. But when I come > back to the computer to check on it, the GnuCash window has closed, > with no status or error message on the screen. And when I go and > check to see if a .gnucash file was created, there is a file sitting > there. But it's extremely small -- just 3 KB in size. And that's > clearly a problem; since the original QIF file is 14 MB. > > I'm a brand new user with GnuCash. This is the first time I'm really > trying to use it. And I've tried this Import process now 3 times -- > all with the same result. So if anyone out there has some idea what's > going on, I'd appreciate any help or suggestions you could provide. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- iii _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
