rearranging accounts - backdoor?

[Charles Day]

On Jan 12, 2008 11:08 AM, Brad Haack <bradhaack at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I like the idea, and I see no reason why that couldn't be the default
behavior when the QIF file includes a category list. But without one, the
importer wouldn't know which categories are income and which are expenses.

-Charles



> 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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