Merging 2 gnucash files

[Lukas Haase]

Hi,

Thanks a lot, this really seems to work. Including split transactions
etc. I really hope that it is robust enough!
What I mean with robust: For example, I import, check the "Total" of the
top accounts, thinking everything is fine and then I see months later
that something is completely screwed up.

If this does potentially not happen, it is fine (it is just a one-time
import).

However, there is one account which is just not exported using
gnucashtoqif! The account shows up in the QIF but no transactions. When
importing, this account does not show up at all.

It was an "equity" account under "Equity" which I used to "virtually"
transfer money from the other GNU cash file (i.e., it was not an income
because I had the money already in my other file and it is not an asset
or liability because that would have screwed up my balance what I "have"
and "owe" in the current file.

In any case, I thought that maybe Equity is not supported and moved the
account under Income (and changed the type to "Income"). Unfortunately
it is still not in the QIF file. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Luke

On 2013-02-25 16:44, David T. wrote:
> 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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