global find/replace after QIF import

[James A. de Haseth]

I have about 10 years worth of data in a non-supported financial app,
InCharge (originally ran under OS/2), and I have exported all the data
to gnucash.  I've been using gnucash for a couple of years for other
financial data and now I am trying to put all accounts under gnucash.

Everything is reasonably good, except a large number of transactions are
marked "unspecified."  This includes interest earned on bank accounts
and payments to credit cards.  For the credit cards, the payment from
the cash/checking account is "unspecified" and the payment shown in the
credit card account is also "unspecified".  This ends up as being two
separate entries in the Unspecified account; one in and one out.

Is there a way to resolve this, even on an account by account basis?
For example, can I go into the checking account and change all the
payments to VISA from unspecified in a global command?  Then can I go to
the VISA account and change all the unspecified receipts of funds as
coming from checking also globally?  

A one-to-one fix is a nightmare!  It's time consuming, and the
transactions get removed from the unspecified account.  However,
correcting the checking account entry puts an extra transaction in the
VISA account and cleaning up the VISA entry puts an extra transaction in
the checking account!

Is there any way out of this?

TIA