QIF importer in 2.6.3 making new accounts with duplicate names
Derek Atkins
derek at ihtfp.com
Wed May 28 17:00:14 EDT 2014
On Wed, May 28, 2014 4:29 pm, Liz wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014 10:20:42 -0400
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > I'm not sure at what stage this happened, and not sure how I
>> > contributed to it.
>>
>> To me this implies that you didn't map the QIF Accounts to the
>> existing GnuCash accounts in the QIF Importer. You need to tell the
>> importer that "Joint"(QIF) is "Assets:Joint"(GNC), and that
>> "cash"(QIF) is "Cash"(GNC). Yes, capitalization matters.
>
> I've used the QIF importer for at least 10 years, and very recently
> upgraded from 2.4.x to 2.6.3.
> So they used to be mapped correctly.
Hmm. I haven't actually looked at the code but from what you're seeing it
looks like the mappings either failed or there is a bigger issue. Can you
retry the import and check the mappings? If necessary, make sure you
re-map the accounts properly?
> Liz
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-derek
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