Need accounting advice

[Derek Atkins]

Vahur Lokk <vahur.lokk at gmail.com> writes:

> Did some testing today and created two gnucash test files "main" and
> "project". Entered few transactions into both.
> Option that bugged me was "replay .log file" (there's not much info on
> it in Help or elsewhere).
> It did not work, until I peeked into these log files (even with only 5
> transactions in the "project" file there was a good number of
> those). Most of them contained nothing but text looking very much like
> table headings. Only two contained more data.
> Opened "main" file and replayed these two log files  - et voila! All
> the "project" transactions were in my "main" file. Which is exactly
> what I need. Even better, it looks like I should be able to do partial
> imports (see the end of my original mail).
>
> If you developers know something that I am missing now, please let me know.

The log replay only works when replaying back into the data file in
which the transactions were created.  It shouldn't work across multiple
data files, because the Account GUIDs will be different.

The log files also dont log account-changes.

So, I wouldn't depend on Log replay.  Personally I'd really
suggest looking into why the Gnucash2QIF didn't work.

> Wahur

-derek

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