global find/replace after QIF import

[Derek Atkins]

Don't be lazy during the import.
Assign the transactions properly; don't leave them assigned to Unspecified,
but actually assign them to proper accounts...
Then go through the duplicates and actually mark the duplicate transactions.

Unfortunately besides that there's just not a good way to do what you want.
There's no way to operate on multiple transactions at once.

-derek

Quoting "James A. de Haseth" <jdehaseth at snappydsl.net>:

> 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
>
>
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