GnuCash import difficulty and interim solution

[Jonathan Kimmitt]

Yes, it is present and has version GNC Importer Version 5.1.3-33a66be8a. Under OSX it’s in KMyMoney preferences instead of Setting

It’s probably something stupid like an account or payee name with an & in is represented unadorned in the XML whereas KMyMoney requires &

> On 6 Jan 2024, at 17:10, Jack via KMyMoney-devel <kmymoney-devel at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1/6/24 11:40, Jonathan Kimmitt via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
>> Hi Jack,
>>   I am using Apple M1 macOS 14.2.1 (23C71), with GnuCash Version: 5.4 Build ID: 5.4+(2023-09-23) and KMyMoney Version 5.1.3-33a66be8a
>> 
>> The converter was written with OCaml 5.0.0 but I would not expect any lack of portability for the XML handling.
>> 
>> The error when trying to open the GnuCash XML  in the GUI was:
>> Could not read your data source. Please check the KMyMoney settings that the necessary plugin is enabled.
>> 
>> Based on what Mark was saying, it sounds like the failure is something quite trivial, however I lack the knowledge to debug it.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
> I'll have to do some digging, but the first step would be to assure the file can be read.  If it is on a local drive and you can look at it in a text editor, then that's OK.  The next step would be to assure that the guncash importer is present and enabled.  Go to Setting/Configure KMyMoney... select Plugins on the left side, and see if GNC Importer is present on the right.  If it's there, then we do have an interesting problem.  If it is NOT present, then we need to figure out why not.  I just confirmed it IS present in the Appimage versions, but I don't know about the macOS version.