Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-30 Thread Liz
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 07:12:00 -0700 > > > > I have been recording transactions on my mobile phone since about > > December 2017 and thought it would be a good idea to now import > > these into my desktop. Prior to December 2017, I had run some tests > > and everything worked fine: I could export

Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread David Cousens
Thanks Marc, I'll see if I can spot any problems. It helps to get feedback as we all have systems with different sets of software and libraries installed and widely varying levels of linux expertise, so instructions which make sense to an experienced developer can be gobbledegook to a novice. I

Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread 1marc1
David, I have copied my command history, along with some comments on what I am doing here: https://pastebin.com/xLUrMmPw Hopefully that can assist you. Those commands essentially lead to the Output and Error logs I pasted in my original message. Marc. -- Sent from:

Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread 1marc1
John, David, Thank you both for your quick responses and suggestions. It indeed turns out that the file created by the Export function on the phone version is a compressed file. What threw me off was the fact that the file's extension is simply .qif. Not having played with this in the last 8

Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread David Cousens
Marc, QIF is an ASCCI formatted text file. It's format is described in a Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Fo rmat. It can be edited in a text editor (gedit,xed etc). I would first check the format of your import file out for missing sysntax like missing header

Re: [GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 29, 2018, at 7:02 AM, 1marc1 <1ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am a long time user of gnucash and a first time poster on this forum. I > find myself stuck between versions. On my desktop (Ubuntu 16.04) I am > running gnucash 2.6.17. On my phone I am running the mobile

[GNC] Stuck between versions

2018-07-29 Thread 1marc1
Dear all, I am a long time user of gnucash and a first time poster on this forum. I find myself stuck between versions. On my desktop (Ubuntu 16.04) I am running gnucash 2.6.17. On my phone I am running the mobile version. I keep the mobile version up to date with whatever the latest version is.