Phantom Imbalance entries

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Sorry, it is 2.6.2 (built from rev667b581) running on Manjaro linux.


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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