Another QIF annoyance

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

Well, you're getting into arcane magic, but  . . .

In your home directory is a directory named .gnucash.  Inside that 
directory is a file named qif-accounts-map.  This is basically a pile of 
automagically generated scheme code that the QIF import program has built 
up over time.  At the very top of the file is a nice warning:

;;; qif-accounts-map
;;; automatically generated by GNUcash.  DO NOT EDIT
;;; (unless you really, really want to).
;;; map from QIF accounts to GNC accounts


If you screw it up none of the mappings may work (Bill Gribble should be 
able to comment on the actual consquences), so I'd make a backup if I were 
you.  Additionally, if you edit it in something like vi, the long lines 
will be very frustrating.  I suggest some variety of emacs.  Anyway, do a 
search on the name that gets mapped wrong.  See what it gets mapped to. 
Edit it.

Somebody else may know a better way of doing this, but this is what I did 
when I rearranged a bunch of things.


--On Wednesday, May 08, 2002 09:40:45 PM -0500 Luke Francl 
<look@acm.cs.umn.edu> wrote:

> Oh, while I'm was importing my QIF, I noticed another thing that bugs me.
> A long time ago, I set up an account called "Dining and Bars" and imported
> stuff into it from QIF files. GnuCash conviently remembers what I imported
> there and automatically does it the next month.
>
> Unfortunately, I decided I wanted to rename the account. The QIF importer
> doesn't know this, so every time I patronize an establishment that I also
> visited under the old account name, the QIF importer wants to recreate
> that old account!
>
> Is there any way to reset this information?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Luke Francl
>
>
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