transaction transfer

[Andrew Gelvin Burley Grimes]

On Feb 4, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Andrew Gelvin Burley Grimes <aggrimes at ncsu.edu> writes:
>
>> I have a slew of transactions in one Gnucash file that I would like to
>> transfer into a different Gnucash file -- the files are set up the
>> same, with the same account hierarchy.  I've done a bit of looking
>> around, at it seems that this might be impossible -- am I wrong?
>
> Did you find or write up anything to do this? I'd like to do the same
> thing. Specifically, I'd like to copy all transactions in one account 
> in
> the first file into an account of the same name in the second file.
>
> It seems it would be a fairly straightforward process, but I haven't 
> had
> the time to whip up the perl.


Unfortunately, no -- I ended up (due to a lack of scripting expertise) 
entering the transactions in to file B, using a general ledger printout 
from file A (shudder...).  It was a long car ride.

For the sake of documentation:
The reason I wanted to do this in the first place stemmed from my 
ignorance of the "check and repair" feature -- I had an unbalanced 
balance sheet, and as a (premature) last resort, I simply exported my 
account hierarchy to a new file, set my opening bank account balances, 
and started over.  A month later I discovered the check and repair 
feature (Actions -> Check & Repair), found and repaired my errant 
transactions in the original file, and then had a months worth of 
back-entry to do...

Suppose I should have done a little bit more digging around in the 
documentation.

I have noticed an "Unbalanced balance sheet" thread going on here 
lately -- but I didn't mention anything because I think it's a 
different issue (is it?)

By the way, the passionate debate about the usefulness of the 
double-entry method has been entertaining.  My two cents?  Gnucash is 
great because it uses double-entry accounting, but who cares about 
that?  The most important thing is that it's non-corporate, and it 
works!


Drew




Drew Grimes
North Carolina State University
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aggrimes