Deleting Transations

[Mike Leone]

Paulo J. Matos had this to say:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Johannes Kapune <listen at kapune.de> wrote:
>> Hi Paulo,
>> Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 19:51 +0100 schrieb Paulo J. Matos:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I made a huge mistake and while importing a qif, I identified the
>>> incorrect account and got 500 transactions into the incorrect account.
>>>
>> why you do not use the last saved file before importing?
> 
> 
> Sorry but I can't understand what you mean here. I have my bank giving
> me either QIF or CSV files and I usually choose csv simply because I
> think it is better dealt with than csv.
> The problem is that I had a qif per each of my accounts and when
> gnucash asked me which account represents the qif account, I chose the
> wrong one my mistake.

GNUCash makes a backup of your data file, saved as a .xac file. You 
could open the .xac file that has a date immediately before your 
incorrect import. Then, none of the wrongly imported transactions would 
be there. Import them correctly, and re-save over the GNUCash file with 
the wrong info.