[moneydance] Error importing OFX files

[Rick Flower]

On Wed, November 19, 2008 1:45 pm, Edward Reid wrote:
> At 19:43 11/17/08 +0100, Josep Egea wrote:
>>"Error saving file: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: encoded string
>>too long: 65544 bytes"
>
> I don't import OFX files myself, but I see it's been a couple of days and
> no response. Many users do import OFX files, and many users are on MacOSX,
> so I have to think it's an issue with your particular OFX file.
>
> AFAIK, OFX files are entirely text. The first thing I'd do would be to
> open
> the OFX file with a text editor and see if there's something in it that
> just looks totally bizarre. Possibly the financial institution is going
> berserk in a description field, or the the file is not complete, or ...
> something.

I would have to agree w/ Edward...  If you do a Google search on the Java
error you got it sounds like some sort of UTF8 string is longer than 65535
characters which is the max that Java wants to see.. If you see a string in
the OFX file that just keeps going and going and going (to the right)
then you've got your answer and the solution (for now) may be something as
simple as truncating the string to something much smaller.

Of course, it could be something where MD is concatenating two fields taken
from the OFX file and when the two are added together they exceed what Java
can handle hence the error.. Anyway, just a few suggestions..