Help with importer needed

[Scumbuster]

"Why not?  How many transactions per day are you talking about?  5?  10?
So you spend 2-5 minutes every evening entering in the receipts from the
day."

LOL  It just doesn't happen.  I am lucky if I get to it every couple
weeks.....when I travel for work etc, it could be a month or two.

When I get really lazy its more than that....LOL


"Think about it this way: if you only enter transactions that your bank
tells you then you'll never find a bank error!  And you'll never know about
e.g. a missing check or some other transaction that failed to execute.  It's
MUCH better for you to enter in your transactions and then verify them
against the bank!"

When I DO sit down to reconcile with my receipts at the end of a week/month
that problem is solved.  I also at some point go thru my checkbook and make
sure that all in there is on the program's register.

It works out ok.  Not as easy as if I entered my receipts every day...but
sometimes life gets in the way.  LOL


"Then train the importer properly.  Or you can manually remove the Bayesian
history.  Alas, there is no way to do this in the UI, you need to delete it
from the data file manually (after making a backup, of course)."

I would be happy to do either one......that is what I am asking for help on
doing.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:51 PM
> To: Scumbuster
> Cc: edodd at billiau.net; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Help with importer needed
>
> "Scumbuster" <scumbuster at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Well, if it was learning from previous assignment,s why is it doing 
>> it across the board to all transactions the way it , regardless of 
>> what the transaction is?
>
> Depends on the contents of your Bayesian history.  Perhaps there is a 
> common token that your bank puts in all its descriptions?
>
>> As I said, I need to break out the tax from the item as well.....6 of 
>> one,
>> 1.2 dozen the other....either way I have to go in and manually do it 
>> so I would rather do it right at the import versus going back thru my 
>> entire register to find the accounts that need split.
>
> OFX doesn't do split transactions.  Period.  If you want to import a 
> split transaction then don't use OFX.  On the other hand, I would 
> never expect a financial institution to know how you want to record the
transaction.
>
>> If there is a better way to do it I am all ears.
>
> Don't import -- enter your transactions as you create them.
>
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