Deleting Transations

[Johannes Kapune]

Hello to all,
Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 11:28 -0400 schrieb Mike Leone:
> Paulo J. Matos had this to say:
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Johannes Kapune <listen at kapune.de> wrote:
> >> Hi Paulo,
> >> Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 19:51 +0100 schrieb Paulo J. Matos:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I made a huge mistake and while importing a qif, I identified the
> >>> incorrect account and got 500 transactions into the incorrect account.
> >>>
> >> why you do not use the last saved file before importing?
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry but I can't understand what you mean here. I have my bank giving
> > me either QIF or CSV files and I usually choose csv simply because I
> > think it is better dealt with than csv.
> > The problem is that I had a qif per each of my accounts and when
> > gnucash asked me which account represents the qif account, I chose the
> > wrong one my mistake.
> 
> GNUCash makes a backup of your data file, saved as a .xac file. You 
> could open the .xac file that has a date immediately before your 
> incorrect import. Then, none of the wrongly imported transactions would 
> be there. Import them correctly, and re-save over the GNUCash file with 
> the wrong info.

as I now notice is that I was too short and not clearly enough, but all
following repliers explain what I was thinking about.

Next time I try to make it better.

Johannes