Disable automatic transaction categorizaiton

[Derek Atkins]

schaefferdavid <david.schaeffer at gmail.com> writes:

> I have recently set up GnuCash using the ofx connect feature to automatically
> download transactions from my banks.  After downloading the transactions it
> brings up the import screen.  Many of the transactions have already been
> assigned to expense accounts, often incorrectly.
>
> Is there a way to have all downloaded transactions initially assigned to the
> imbalance account instead?

Generally no.  The system is supposed to learn how to map the
transactions.  It looks for key words in the description, memo, etc
and uses those key words to match to the account based on previous
mappings with those same keywords.

There is no way to reset those mappings.

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-derek

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