OFX Importer and Transaction Matcher

[Berck E. Nash]

The OFX importer.  I periodically download an OFX file with the hopes of 
marking the existing transactions as cleared and creating the new ones....

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Wait, are you talking about OFX importer or the QIF importer?
> 
> -derek
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> "Berck E. Nash" <flyboy at gmail.com> writes:
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>>I converted to GnuCash from Quicken some months ago and have found the 
>>GnuCash transaction matcher to be less than adequate.  It makes some 
>>really bad choices when it comes to matching transactions.  Sometimes it 
>>ignores check numbers (which should be a GIVEN match), it matches things 
>>with different amounts but similar names...  How can a transaction be a 
>>match if they're different amounts?!?
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>>I've been unable to find out if I can do anything to tweak the way the 
>>matching works, but have been content to go through and manually fix all 
>>its mistakes until recently.
>>
>>The last couple of weeks I've been unable to match some transactions 
>>manually!  The transaction matcher only presents the wrong transactions 
>>as choices, and doesn't display the correct ones!  It seems like ANY 
>>uncleared transaction should be a candidate for a match, particularily 
>>transactions with the same check numbers and amounts!
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Should I check and/or file a bug report?
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