Match payees/memos to Gnucash accounts ignored during QIF import

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Johann Rohwer <j.m.rohwer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi gnucash users
>
> This is my first post to the list and I've just subscribed, so excuse if
> this issue has been discussed before. I briefly browsed the archives but
> couldn't find anything.
>
> I've been using Gnucash effectively for years to do my personal finance.
> However, when I recently upgraded to version 2.2.1 it turned out that
> when importing QIF files from my online banking, the actions in the
> druid step "Match payees/memos to Gnucash accounts" are ignored and all
> the imported transactions are linked to the "Unspecified" expense
> account after import. Of course I can still edit them in place one by
> one, but this is very inconvenient since the druid remembers the correct
> matches for frequently occurring transactions. Is this a known issue/bug?
>

Could you provide a sample transaction from your QIF file for which the
payee/memo mappings are being ignored? Two theories off the top of my head:

1. Does your QIF contains some lines that only contain an "L"?
2. Does this only happen to investment transactions?

A sample would greatly help.

Thanks,
Charles

OS: Mandriva Linux 2008.0, x86_64 architecture (gnucash 2.2.1 bundled
> with distro)
>
> I also compiled the latest release (2.2.4) from source but the issue
> still remains.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
> Johann
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