rearranging accounts - backdoor?

[Brad Haack]

Thanks for all of the suggestions.  I took a stab at editing the QIF 
file, but what seemed like the obvious mod, didn't quite work.  I 
gunziped the gnucash file and after a quick look decided that, like I 
was warned, that wasn't practical.  I went thru the normal channels, and 
after hours of mouse clicks I have it pretty close.
Product improvement suggestions:  Currently all quicken categories get 
set to top level accounts, these could default to Expense: or Income: 
sub accts.

Making progress...

Georg Stapper wrote:
> I would edit the QIF files: replace all the categories by the according GNC account. The importer recognises the whole account structure.
> 
> A small disadvantage is that there will be no mapping set up between the memo/payee and the accounts during the import process. This needs to be done with your future data.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brad Haack <bradhaack at yahoo.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Friday, 11 January, 2008 8:56:49 PM
> Subject: rearranging accounts - backdoor?
> 
> 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?
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