rearranging accounts - backdoor?

[Brad Haack]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 12:08:46PM -0700, Brad Haack 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.
> 
> THis process is much simpler if you do as others have suggested and
> create an account tree in the gnucash file *before* importing. Then
> you can map the incoming accounts list to the existing tree. 
> 
> As Charles suggested, there isn't sufficient information in a basic
> qif file to determine what is expense or income. So that put's you
> back to mapping the accounts anyway...
> 
> .02
> 
> A
> 
I don't know what the difference btwn a basic qif file and my qif file 
which was exported from quicken, but every exported quicken category had 
the correct gnucash type, income or expense, when it was imported so it 
should be simple to do the translation.  I'm not an expert at importing 
qif files, and neither is anyone else who's transitioning from quicken 
or msmoney, but I don't think it would be much simpler to create the 
account tree 1st.



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