Mint to GnuCash

[Chris Lonsberry]

I think it has something to do with the header line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format#Header_line

But I can't seem to find the correct way to use it.

Chris


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Chris Lonsberry
<chris.lonsberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think the L would be the 'target' account (or expense category). I am
> looking for a way to specify the 'source' account.
>
> For example,
>
> 3/28/2014,Mortgage,MY MORTGAGE COMPANY,1.95,debit,Credit Card
> Payment,OtherChecking,,
>
> 'Credit Card Payment' would be my target account and 'OtherChecking'
> would be my source account.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:06 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format
>>
>> I believe "L" will designate the other account. Quicken used categories,
>> which I believe Gnucash maps into separate Accounts. This is how Gnucash
>> can, for example, take an entire Quicken QIF file and map it into a Gnucash
>> Account hierarchy in one pass (which is what I did 8 years ago).
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Apr 5, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Chris Lonsberry <chris.lonsberry at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:10 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> GnuCash will import a QIF file with multiple accounts just fine,
>>> although with more accounts there are more opportunities for transactions
>>> to end up in odd accounts.
>>
>>
>> Thanks David. Maybe I just don't understand the QIF spec. Do you know
>> what tag in QIF is used to denote the account for a particular transaction?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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