global find/replace after QIF import

[James A. de Haseth]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:45 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Also, the import barfs on dividend accounts.  I had an account into
> > which I put all dividends from different securities - there was really
> > no elegant way to do it in the old software.  The entry had the stock
> > name, when it was received, and a separate entry when the dividend
> > amount was moved to an asset account.  This resulted in deposits and
> > debits from the dividend account.  Every debit, credit, payment or
> > charge from that dividend account is rejected by the QIF import.  This
> > is the only account that has trouble.  I'm not sure why.
> 
> I'd have to see a sample QIF that has trouble (and a decription of the
> trouble) in order to answer this..

The problem is solved.  I looked up the format/protocol for QIFs and
found that Type:Invest does not allow Credit, Debit, Charge, Payment,
etc, as transactions.  If I change the type (TInvest) to banking (TBank)
it works just fine and I can import it.

Thanks for all the help.

Jim