rearranging accounts - backdoor?

[Charles Day]

On Jan 11, 2008 12:56 PM, Brad Haack <bradhaack at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm just getting started w/ gnucash and have imported my data from
> quicken.  All of the accounts and categories got spread out at the top
> level and I'd like to reorganize them as subs under the main accounts
> (asset, income,etc).  I see how to do this with the GUI, but it's going
> to be slow and painful.  Is there a file hidden away that I can edit, or
> some other way to get at this with a text editor?
>

If you haven't invested too much time on the importing process, then you
might just start over and build the GnuCash account tree first. Then the
importer can map your Quicken accounts to the GnuCash accounts.

If you're importing your data from a QIF file, please make sure that you are
using GnuCash version 2.2.3, and be aware that bugs
373584<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373584>and
506810 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506810> may still affect
you. There are proposed patches for these bugs, awaiting review, and these
would probably be released in version 2.2.4.

Finally, if you've got any special characters in your QIF file (such as
foreign currency symbols, letters with accents, etc.) then you'll need to
convert those characters to UTF-8 before importing. Personally, I used iconv
and this saved quite a few of my memos.

Cheers,
Charles