QIF import creates duplicate account

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I try to use QIF import for credit card account data. It works for
> most transactions, but has a problem when a transaction is matched to
> one of my GnuCash accounts (my Assets:Current account). When I click
> "Apply" on the QIF import, the importer creates a duplicate account,
> identical to the original (Assets:Current account), even with exactly
> the same name, but containing only the newly imported transactions.
> This happens even if I "match" every QIF transaction with an existing
> one -  so the QIF importer imports no transactions, making the newly
> created duplicate account have no transactions.
>
> I have read some previous emails to this list that said a duplicate
> account is created if the currency or account type is different. In
> this case, the duplicate account and original account both have type
> "Bank", and same currency (GBP). The QIF import is done with currency
> GBP, which is set from the locale.
>
> I am not particularly bothered about this one transaction as it is
> easy to work around, but this looks like a bug in the QIF importer? I
> tried to reproduce the problem by creating a new set of accounts, and
> then importing the QIF, but that worked ok.

What is your locale currency?
What is the currency of the target account in question?
What is the currency of all the parent accounts from that account?

Check the same on the duplicate account(s)?

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-derek

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