OFX import doesn't allow changing chosen account.

[David Reiser]

bug (enhancement request) 98963 (that's a 5 digit number! from Nov  
2002).

Dave
On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Ian Lewis wrote:

> Ok, Thanks David.
>
> I'm of the opinion that that is broken and needs to be fixed. I'll  
> look for bug reports.
>
> Ian
>
> 2007/12/30, David Reiser < dbreiser at earthlink.net>:
>
> On Dec 29, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Ian Lewis wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was playing around with the OFX importer and noticed that it seems
> > to
> > remember the account mappings between the account in the OFX file
> > and the
> > gnucash account for an account you are importing into.
> >
> > So I choose OFX import and then the dialog comes up and asks me what
> > gnucash
> > account to map the account present in the OFX file to. So you choose
> > the
> > account and it shows you the transactions that you may or may not
> > import
> > based on what you do next.
> >
> > The problem is that if you accidentally choose the wrong gnucash
> > account
> > originally then you can't change it in that dialog. So you hit
> > cancel and
> > start over by going to File->Import->OFX import . But the subsequent
> > time
> > you choose the same file, it remembers the account you (mistakenly)
> > chose
> > last time and doesn't prompt you again. So you can't change it at
> > all. The
> > only way to do it is to not save your data file, close gnucash and
> > restart
> > it.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Ian
>
> No, you're not missing anything. There is a description somewhere in
> the mailing list archives on how to undo the selection by editing the
> gnucash data file by hand. I had to do it a couple times when I got
> started, didn't have any problems following the directions, but it has
> been a couple years for me so I don't remember any details.
>
> Dave
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> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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