Importing mis-match

[Derek Atkins]

The importer should definitely not match against transations that
have already been matched to an import with a different transaction ID.
If it's doing that, that's a bug.  Please file a report in Bugzilla.
Note that you may need to provide an example datafile and a sample
OFX that show the problem in order to debug.

-derek

Keith <pdragon at pdragon.net> writes:

> I use Gnucash for just basic checking account and credit card balance
> tracking. My bank lets me download .ofx data and I just import that into
> Gnucash to make entries and, at the end of the month, reconcile. One odd
> thing I've noticed, though, is when importing my paycheck transactions. I
> get paid a fixed amount twice a month, so the amount is always the same. I
> typically don't enter my paycheck information in manually, and just let the
> OFX import put it in. The problem is Gnucash keeps trying to auto-match &
> reconcile my paycheck to old, previously imported paycheck transactions.
> Even when they've already been cleared and/or reconciled. If I don't
> manually change this to a new entry on the import screen, it's never
> actually imported. And if I try to re-import again, Gnucash has somehow
> associated my new paycheck transaction with the old, previous entry. So far,
> thankfully, I've been able to catch this every time it happens (I notice I
> have A LOT less money than I should) and just close Gnucash without saving
> and reimport, fixing the incorrect match. If I hadn't ever caught this, I
> honestly don't know how I could fix it. I could just manually enter the
> paycheck in, I guess, but then I'm not sure if reconciling would work in the
> end because I don't know what Gnucash did with that previous transaction.
> It's somehow associated with another transaction, but I don't know how.
>
> Why is Gnucash matching to previous transactions that were either already
> cleared or even reconciled? Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
> I started using Gnucash with the 2.1.1 beta and just last night upgraded
> 2.2.0 stable. It's done this consistently through every version and still
> does it with the new stable.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Keith
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