Almost duplicate transactions

[Dave Hall]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Chris Roat <croat at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> 
 
> Basically, you can't map a Payee to an asset account.
> 
> 
>>In my checking account QIF:
>>
>>DAA/BB/CCCC
>>TXX.YY
>>Cc
>>PTRANSFER IN
>>^
>>
>>In my savings account QIF:
>>
>>DAA/BB/CCCC
>>T-XX.YY
>>Cc
>>PTRANSFER OUT
>>^
> 
> 
> Change the "PTRANSFER IN" to "L[savings]" and "PTRANSFER OUT" to
> "L[checking]" and then you can map the qif-accounts to each other.
> 
> 
>>>
>>
> 

(Please pardon if duplicate post.)

Hi,

I've just reviewed this entire thread.  The bottom line seems to be that there
is some sort of difficulty with recognizing asset->asset transfers when
importing QIF or OFX files.  

I'm in about the same boat as Chris R. - I'm trying to use GnuCash to track my
cash flow month to month.  In my case I would like to import OFX files for about
8 asset files and have the transfers between them all matched up.  Not
suprisingly I am also having the same symptoms as Chris.  

As I'm just getting started on this I've been letting GnuCash set up my accounts
as I import each OFX file.  Is it possible that I need to choose a different
account type when creating the accounts?  (The default seems to be 'Bank'.)

If necessary and possible I would even write a script to pre-process my OFX
files to get the transfers to work.  Can you suggest any documentation or
resources in this respect.

Thanks.

-Dave