duplicate checks when importing from .qif

[Steve Neuharth]

    yea... that'd be super nice. It seem like it *should* be a pretty simple
assumption... common check number and a common amount = potential duplicate.
    MSMoney tried to do this but it was incredibly sloppy and would match
the wierdest stuff that I'd have to undo later (matching a $20 check with a
$20 ATM withdrawal because the date was closer... DUMB!). This is one of the
reasons I'm trying out gnucash. I do miss MSMoney's live update ability but
I was hoping to use frequent .qif imports to add the entries that I forgot
or that my wife didn't tell me about. It seems like alot of extra work to
have to manually remove duplicate checks every import.
    Am I doing something procedurally wrong... making this more difficult
than it really is?
    Also... I was wondering about the .qif import preferences panel. Is
there supposed to be just one checkbox (turns on "verbose documentation") to
configure it or am I missing some config options?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ollie Acheson" <oacheson@acheson.org>
To: <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: duplicate checks when importing from .qif


> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:27:34AM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> > No, it doesn't.  Quicken doesn't, either  Neither one has human
intelligence.
> >
>
> Actually Quicken (at least 2002 version) comes pretty close, providing
> a very good guess when matching downloaded transactions to
> transactions already in a register. You then accept or reject
> Quicken's suggested match. If you accept, then Quicken marks the
> transaction as cleared. Only rarely do I have to override
> its choice.
>
> I would think this is a feature gnucash would do well to emulate.
>
> Ollie
>
>
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