Merging 2 gnucash files

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 25 19:44:00 EST 2013


Lukas--

You can read about the QIF format here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format

I am not sure what kind of robustness you might need. Are you merging GnuCash files once, or repeatedly?

David

On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at> wrote:

> On 2013-02-25 08:24, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Lukas Haase <lukashaase at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to merge 2 gnucash files?
>>> 
>>> For the start, it would be enough that the second file is imported in a
>>> large "File 2" account from the first file.
>> 
>> There is no direct way.
> 
> Oh, that's no good news :(
> 
>> One potential approach is to use Gnucash2QIF to convert one data file to
>> QIF, and then use the QIF importer to include it in the second file.
> 
> Is QIF "robust" enough?
> 
> I have not much experience with it but what I know so far is that it is
> more like CSV for a Spreadsheet ... so only one table, problems with
> formats, settings etc.
> 
> Does it also mean I have to import/export each individual account?
> 
> Are transactions linked from one account to another?
> Are split transactions stably handled?
> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Luke
> 
> 
> 
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