Importing QIF making new accounts

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Oct 24 13:22:41 EDT 2006


Hi,

First, please CC gnucash-user on all your replies.
Second, I don't know what you mean by "edit your post" -- This is a
mailing list; it's "write only" -- there's no way to "edit" anything.
You could send another message, but you had not posted another message
when I replied.

-derek

Quoting addr at mts.net:

>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> I'll ask you the same thing:
>>
>> What is your locale (echo $LANG)?
>> What currency are your existing accounts?
>>
>> -derek
>
> I guess your reply was written before I edited my poat as follows:
>
> I have solved it so I'll post this for any other non-US citizens.
>
> Even if you specify to use your currency (mine is CAD) globally  and 
> when importing .qif you select CAD again it doesn't apparently apply 
> correctly and so Gnucash thinks it is importing USD into a CAD 
> account which it can't do, so it renames the import as chequing-2, 
> unspecified-2 etc..
>
> You must go to Edit/Preferences/International and select your currency again.
>
> Works fine after that.
>>
>> Quoting addr <addr at mts.net>:
>>
>>>
>>> When importing from my bank Gnucash creates new accounts instead of using
>>> exiisting ones. A search of this forum produced someone else with the
>>> same
>>> problem back in 2005. His was caused by an OS upgrade which changed
>>> Gnucash's setting back to USD from AUD.
>>> In my case I am just starting and I don't see why it would think my
>>> import
>>> is different from what I have just set (CAD). Any ideas? For my purposes
>>> the
>>> program is not usable like this since I import from mu bank once a week.
>>>
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>>
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> Quoted from:
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>
>



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       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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