[Fwd: Am I missing something?]

[Rob Prior]

Forwarding a third time, let's see if it gets through now...

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Subject: Am I missing something?
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:39:21 -0800
From: Rob Prior <rv7 at b4.ca>
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org

Two things:

One, someone asked the question a while ago "doesn't anyone read the
archives before asking questions?"  Well, I just tried to.  Sorry, but
it's faster to post the question to the list.  Perhaps a good RFE would
be to request that someone write a search function for the archives, so
we wouldn't have to search through each month of each year individually.
  At least, I couldn't find the mailing list archive search function on
the gnucash website.

Two (the real question):  When I import an .OFX file with a transaction
that withdraws from one account and deposits to another, say a transfer
of $500 from chequing to credit card, the OFX file has in it one entry
for the withdrawl from chequing, and one entry with the deposit to
credit card.  I have yet to see the OFX import wizard match these.  I
started using Gnucash at 1.7.7, but I just installed 1.8.1 last night
and it works the same.  This results in two entries in each account, one
of which has to be deleted from each account in order to balance things.
  Am I missing something?

Frequently (but not always) a transfer to my credit card account shows
up as a withdrawl immediately in my account, but the credit to my credit
card account doesn't show up until the next business day, so the date on
the transaction is sometimes a day off.  Would that contribute?

Thanks in advance,
-Rob P.


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