ofx import in gnucash doesn't work correctly

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Not strange at all...  The importer only compares the import transaction
ID to already-existing transaction IDs in the account.  It assumes the
bank is smart enough not to duplicate a transaction in a single OFX file.

-derek

Quoting Medioman <kmedioman at fastwebnet.it>:

> Hi,
>
> I think we can say there are at least two banks that duplicates
> transaction IDs, the second one is mine (in Italy) :-)
>
> Thanks a lot Derek, it seems it is working correctly now, even if I
> didn't try yet to import all the monthly reports, just some preliminary
> trials.
>
> I have to manually change the <FITID> values, the same numbers appear
> many time in the same and in different files.
>
> Anyway it's strange that Gnucash import correctly transactions with the
> same <FITID> from the same ofx file but not from different files.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Luca
>
>
> Il giorno mer, 21/11/2007 alle 08.42 -0500, Derek Atkins ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Medioman <kmedioman at fastwebnet.it> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > hope somebody can help!
>> >
>> > I can't import correctly .ofx files that I download monthly from my bank
>> > website.
>> > The first file I import is imported correctly, the second is blank or
>> > many transactions are missing independently on which is the first or
>> > second. I mean; if I first import January then February is imported
>> > wrongly, but if I first import February then is January incorrect. It's
>> > only the first file in a fresh account imported correctly.
>> >
>> > I'm using ubuntu 7.10 (but the same happened in previous versions also),
>> > gnucash 2.2.1, libofx 0.8.2 installed from the official repository.
>> >
>> > The same files are imported correctly in Kmymoney and Money.
>>
>> This came up recently on this list -- could you look at the OFX files
>> and look at the transaction IDs?  We've found at least one bank that
>> incorrectly duplicates transaction IDs across months, so GnuCash thinks
>> that you've already imported those transactions.
>>
>> It's possible that Money and KMyMoney ignore the transaction ids
>> during the import.  Or it's possible that GnuCash is looking at
>> the wrong field.
>>
>> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>



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