Almost duplicate transactions

[davehall]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Chris Roat <croat at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> 
>>>So you have a single QIF file two multiple accounts but the
>>>transactions don't match up internally?  This sounds like a problem
>>>with whatever created the QIF file.  The importer can't match that
>>>together if the QIF file itself doesn't map them together.
>>
>>Oh.  That's what I thought the duplicate transaction finding was
>>all about.
> 
> 
> Nope, the duplicate detection is about match transactions in the
> qif file to transactions already in the gnucash data file.
> 
> 
>>>You might be better off loading the accounts as separate QIFs --
>>>either in one process or two -- I'm not sure.
>>
>>It doesn't work properly either way (though I do finally get the
>>duplicate transaction window).  Question then:  in the QIF
>>standard what should be different to map these transactions
>>together?
> 
> 
> Ahh, the problem here is that you're mapping them to payees and not
> to QIF Accounts.  Change the P... to L[other-acct] and it will do the
> right thing.
> 
> 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.