Updating my bank account - qif downloads

[Leon McClatchey]

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Richard Court wrote:

> How do I manage periodic downloads of .qif files to gnucash to update my bank account. Will subsequent downloads recognize previously recorded transactions. Do I have to choose non-overlapping periods. Do I create new file names? What procedures are involved? This is all very confusing to me. Any advice appreciated.
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> Richard

I'm not sure about the bank accounts, but I do know that you can use gnc-prices to get stock and mutual fund price quotes.  Originally I set it up to run via crontabs.  I let that run for awhile, and then created a little python wrapper to run gnucash itself.  The reason for the wrapper was because I also discovered
that gnucash does create a bunch of temporary data transaction logs, but never deletes anything.  So that is what my wrapper does, after exiting gnucash, it will purge the old data files, also when used as a wrapper to launch gnc-prices, it will check to see if gnucash is running, and if it is, it will abort.  I may
eventually change it to wait until gnucash exits and then go ahead and get the stock prices.  I've set that little utility up so that it gets the stock prices about 5:30pm on weekdays, and it will purge the gnucash old transaction logs at about 4:30 am on Monday morning.

Hope this helps:-)

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