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@ashraymehta thank you! That worked perfectly. I was following the readme here on github which had everything running under WLS and using bash, so thought that I needed to do that. Did not realise I could execute js directly in W10. Thanks again 😃

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Hey @kazzazed! It sounds like the importer is unable to find the file at the specified path.

Since the file (budget.json) is in the same directory where you're running the command from, the command should probably be:

node index.js ./budget.json

Please note the . before the /budget.json, that's an important one.

Hope this helps!

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@ashraymehta , thanks for responding.
If I add the stop I get 'Couldn't connect to Actual' (which is running). I get that same error if I mistype the file name.
I have also tried specifying the full path, and also moving the budget file to another path and specifying that. Both cases I still get the error reading file.
I've tried running in command prompt, powershell in Administrator mode, and in Ubuntu 20.04 lts. All have the same result.
It's driving me nuts :(

[user@laptop]:/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master$ node index.js ./budget.json
Error: Couldn't connect to Actual. Please run the app first.
at init (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/node_modules/@actual-app/api/connection.js:44:11)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async _run (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/node_modules/@actual-app/api/connection.js:90:5)
at async run (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/index.js:6:3)
[user@laptop]:/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master$

also tried specifying full path:

C:\Temp\import-ynab5-master>bash
[user@laptop]:/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master$ node index.js /mnt/C/Temp/import-ynab5-master/budget.json
Error: Error reading file
at importYNAB5 (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/importer.js:319:11)
at run (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/index.js:6:9)
at Object. (/mnt/c/Temp/import-ynab5-master/index.js:9:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

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Hey @kazzazed. I tried it on my Windows PC and I faced the same issue as you when I ran it from WSL (Couldn't connect to Actual. Please run the app first.). It seems that the importer can't connect to the Actual application from WSL. However, when I run it from Powershell (without WSL), it seems to work.

The command from Powershell would be the same one I posted above: node index.js ./budget.json.

Please note that I did not enter bash before running the command. It was from Powershell itself. This means that you'd have to install Node.js on Windows (https://nodejs.org/en/download/), if you don't have it already.

Hope this sorts it out for you!

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I added a note about WSL a little while ago. Thanks for the help @ashraymehta !

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