[Kmymoney] Problem importing simple CSV

Allan agander93 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 10:38:32 UTC 2013


Hi Louis-Philippe again

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>> "Enter debit flag column number".
>> This is very unclear.  I assume KMM is asking which column is containing
>> the debit amounts but why would it ask that if it automatically detected
>> it was column 3??  I tried leaving it blank and entering 3, same result
>
>Ah, yes.  This is a pre-historic problem, to match the version you are using!
>
> That feature you've stumbled upon was introduced foe a particular user, and > I can't at the moment even remember why it was needed.  However, there are > a few ways of dealing with it.  The first and easiest is just to hit
> return.  Then to avoid the problem, if you are reasonably au fait with
> editing, open the file ~/yourid/.kde(4)/share/config/csvimporterrc, and
> look for the line
> "DebitCol=-1".  Then, ensure KMyMoney has been closed, and change the value > from -1 to 0 and save.  All being well, you should not see that again.
> Thirdly, and advisably, try to get on to a more up-to-date version of KMM.  > Version 4.6.4 has recently been released.

I got that exactly wrong, I'm afraid.  I told you what I had just done 
in order to test.  You need to do the opposite - change the value from 0 
to -1 and save.

Allan


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