Quickbooks to GnuCASH

Tony Nelson tonyn at openlearning.com
Wed Apr 2 22:55:49 EDT 2008


Forgive me, but how do I determine if I have an updated qif-to-gnc.scm?

--Tony

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:46 -0400, Michael DeBusk wrote:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> >> I couldn't get it all imported without massive errors.
> > 
> > When was this?  There's been a lot of work on the QIF Importer
> > recently and it really seems to do a MUCH better job, thanks to
> > Charles Day.  But you need to be running 2.2.4 (plus an updated
> > qif-to-gnc.scm) to get all the fixes.
> 
> It was at the beginning of 2007, or maybe the end of 2006.
> 
> Although the QIF Importer may have been buggy, I imagine my complete
> inability to get my data imported had quite a bit to do with my lack of
> patience at the time. I had switched to Linux from OS/2 at the same
> time, so I was feeling like a complete n00b (and I hadn't felt that way
> since the early 1990s, when I first experienced the cold starkness of
> the DOS prompt). Anything that didn't "just work" I had to put aside
> until I felt at home in Linux. Quicken 98 worked fine under Wine.
> 
> Now, I compile GnuCash from the tarball*, routinely edit QIF files by
> hand, and am reviewing my old college Accounting textbooks. (Anybody
> remember doing double-entry on paper? Those were the days!) So it's all
> good. All that's left is to learn to code in C so I can pitch in.
> 
> Oh, I do have 2.2.4 and the updated qif-to-gnc.scm.
> 
> *I am running Ubuntu and I want OFX import capabilities
> 



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