-2.6: Re: 1.8.11 breaks QIF importing for me? QIF Import: Name conflicts with another account

[Andrew Mitchell]

Hmmm, looks like I was upgrading from 1.8.11 to 1.8.11 when upgrading
fedora from core 3 to core 4!
I have the same problem with both of my banks, so I don't think it is a
problem with the banks changing format. 

I just can't see how come my "unspecified" transactions force the
creation of a new account called "unspecified 2"

I have now gone a little further as to narrowing down the problem...
Luckily I keep daily and monthly backups of each file...
I took the backup from the end of March of my home-finances file,
loaded it into gnucash, then imported by transaction QIF file from
April.
(This is exactly the same operation I did successfully a few months ago
in fedora core 3... on exactly the same files).
Unfortunately this time it still did not work!
i.e. take the same gnucash file, same gnucash version, same qif import
file and get two very different results!
MY next step would be to attempt to revert my .gnucash directory as I
can't think of anything else (other than just deleting my .gnucash
directory or changing usernames)!

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 22:08 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >From which version of GnuCash are you upgrading?  The QIF code hasn't changed in
> several gnucash versions, so my first guess is that the actual QIF from the
> Bank changed..  Or perhaps you lost your account mappings...  Or the QIF is
> saying the wrong kind of account...
> 
> -derek
> 
> Quoting Andrew Mitchell <gnucash at andrewmitchell.id.au>:
> 
> > Hi, I've recently upgraded to fedora Core 4... and am now using the
> > latest gnucash. Unfortunately QIF importing from both of my banks has
> > been broken in the process.
> > 
> > When I try to import a QIF file everything seems to go fine until the
> > actual import happens right at the very end.
> > (i.e. it successfully identifies which accounts the transactions map to,
> > finds duplicate transactions excetera)
> > but, when it does import everything, it duplicates all the relevant
> > accounts!
> > e.g. instead of the transactions going into ANZ (the name of the
> > account), it instead makes a new account called "ANZ 2" with description
> > "QIF Import: Name conflicts with another account"
> > even the unspecified transactions go into a new account called
> > "Unspecified 2" with description "QIF Import: Name conflicts with
> > another account.
> > 
> > I presume that this is not happening to everyone else... so what am I
> > doing wrong? Why can't it just put the transactions into the accounts I
> > already have rather than making new accounts?
> > 
> > During my upgrade I had some problems with my .gnome directory and had
> > to go back to a backup of this that was a week old... would this have
> > contributed?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Andrew.
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