Phantom Imbalance entries

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 9 11:42:03 EDT 2014


Hi,

mailing list <mailinglists950 at gmail.com> writes:

> I have recently transferred from kmymoney to gnucash. It took a long time
> but I have got it mostly finished now. I had a lot of entries in the
> imbalance account. I have gone through and corrected all the ones I can but
> I am left with a lot of 'phantom' entries.
>
> These are entries that have a description field that I use but aren't
> linked to any transaction and have zero monetary value. If I select an
> entry and click 'Jump to corresponding transaction' nothing happens because
> there is no linked transaction.
>
> The entries match genuine entries in another account ie the dates and
> description match but the other entries are balanced with other accounts
> and have a monetary value. There are also 2 or usually 3 phantom entries in
> the imbalance account for each genuine entry.
>
> I thought the imbalance account was automatically generated from other
> accounts so I am puzzled how it can have entries that aren't linked to
> entries in other accounts.
>
> Should I just delete the phantom entries? I would rather understand how
> they were created and where they came from in case deleting them has side
> effects.
>
> I transferred my data from kmymoney by exporting qifs for each account and
> then importing them into gnucash plus a lot of tidying up afterwards.

You leave out the most important piece of information: What version of
GnuCash are you using?  For example, there are known issues with early
2.6.x versions with showing partial transactions.

> thanks

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-derek

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