update and reconcile (U+R) during OFX import updates too much

[David T.]

Eric--

As I mentioned, this is meant to be *your* accounting, not the bank's. And from your perspective, your account did go negative, even if the bank didn't know this.

Personally, I would want to know that I am floating checks and counting on the bank's delay to keep me solvent. 

With regards to changing Gnucash's behavior, I think you'll have a difficult time changing this, but I am usually wrong on these sorts of prognostications.

David

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----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <hawicz at gmail.com>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: update and reconcile (U+R) during OFX import updates too much

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:57 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Eric--
>
> When I am doing this, I usually choose R. It would seem to me that in this situation, you would want the original date, yes? I mean, presumably, you know what date you wrote on the check, and isn't the what you'd want in the register? Or, to put it another way, the bank's date is not going to be the same as your date; if you prefer your information for the description, why wouldn't you prefer your information for the date? This file is supposed to be the accounting of *your* books, after all.

No, I don't want the date I wrote the check, because then my records
aren't going to match up with the bank, so I won't know whether I
actually had/have enough money in my account on any particular day to
cover the checks I'm writing.
e.g. if I start with $100, write a check for $90, the next day get $50
from an ATM, then a day later deposit another $100, but the check
doesn't clear until after the deposit, I don't want gnucash to be
showing me that my account went negative when it actually didn't.

Really, I'd like to see both the date I wrote the check and the date
it posted, but that doesn't seem to be supported (and it's probably
harder to add an extra field than to get gnucash to not update an
existing one).

eric

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <hawicz+gnucash at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 3:45 PM
> Subject: update and reconcile (U+R) during OFX import updates too much
>
> I've entered a lot of transactions, especially checks, in gnucash.  I
> am trying to import a QFX statement from my bank, and it mostly works
> ok, but doing so loses the description that I've entered.  Instead it
> gets replaced with completely useless information like "CHECK" (which
> is what the bank includes in the QFX file, since they don't know any
> better).
>
> I tried checking the "R" (reconcile) checkbox on the import page
> instead, but then that doesn't update the dates.
>
> I could have sworn this worked in very old versions of gnucash (before
> the U+R checkbox showed up).  The current behaviour really sucks
> because it means I need to do a whole bunch of manual work to either
> write down and fix the descriptions, or write down and update all the
> dates. :(
>
> Is there a way to restore the original behaviour of updating the date,
> but not overwriting my description?
>
> Thanks,
> eric
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