Recovering from overuse of Unspecified

[Derek Atkins]

Wes Gray <smiths at alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> writes:

> When I originally converted my Quicken data over to Gnucash I made
> every transaction either go into or out of an "Unspecified" account.
> I've been using it that way ever since, basically doing a single-entry
> system.  Now I'd like to convert over to proper double-entry and remove
> the Unspecified account.  How should I best go about this?  Do I have to
> go through all my transactions and replace the Unspecified account
> with a good one?  Is there a way to start over from scratch and import
> my existing Gnucash data into a new gnucashdb?

There is no way to re-import a Gnucash data file into gnucash.  You
could try to write a perl script to munge the XML file, or you have to
go through every transaction and fix it.

Sorry.

-derek

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