Hi Sherlock,
Thanks for that link. I had tried various Internet searches to find if
this problem had previously been reported; but I was never able to find
anything relevant. Like I said, I'm pretty new to GnuCash.
I'll be sure to search https://bugs.gnucash.org in the future if I come
across anything else that looks like a problem. Thanks again for
pointing me in the right direction.
Tom
On 8/12/2025 11:02 PM, Sherlock wrote:
Hi Tom,
Welcome to GnuCash.
The issue has already been reported:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798423
Regards,
Sherlock
On 8/12/25 7:42 PM, Tom Route-36 wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a new user to GnuCash and this mailing list; but I think I found a
bug in the program regarding the Import of QIF Files. I hope this is
the proper place to report it. Anyway, here's the issue.
The QIF file of interest was exported from Quicken 2016 Home &
Business. Among the many exported Quicken accounts there are several
Brokerage accounts. And in some of those Brokerage accounts there are
a few transactions that Quicken refers to as Reminder Transactions.
It seems that the GnuCash Import process can't handle QIF files that
include such Reminder Transactions.
This is what happens. I'll select that QIF file to import it. And
everything appears to start out just fine. It loads normally. And
I'm able to go thru all the normal prompts for accounts and stock
holdings, matching QIF and GnuCash accounts, Income and Expense
categories, etc. When it gets to the QIF Import step, I'll start the
Import process; and it also starts out just fine. But then midway
thru that Import process (maybe 60% across the progress bar) GnuCash
just crashes and closes without any warning. There's no error message
or pop-up window to indicate what went wrong. The GnuCash program
just completely closes altogether without any indication of why or
what happened.
To be clear, I'm not reporting this here because I need any help.
I've already found a solution for my own needs. I fixed it by going
back into Quicken and removing those Reminder Transactions from the
Brokerage accounts. After removing them I re-exported all the
accounts to an updated QIF file. And that updated QIF file (without
the offending Reminder Transactions) can now be imported into GnuCash
just fine. What I want to do here is to let the right folks know
about this issue; since it causes GnuCash to crash and close
completely without any warning. That seems like kind of a user-
unfriendly way of handling an Import error.
Anyway, if you want any additional details about this just let me
know. I'm happy to help. FYI, I confirmed this problem with the
latest GnuCash v5.12 on Windows 11 Home v24H2.
Tom
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