OFX Bayesian import not working for me

[John Ralls]

On Jul 24, 2014, at 5:02 AM, Eliot Rosenbloom <eliot at prosocialleadership.net> wrote:

> Thanks, John.  Not that I'm aware of.  I futzed around a little with MAMP in the last few months, but not in connection with GC.  And I use Filemaker a lot (installed v 13 in April).  But that's as close as I get to SQL.
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> In April, because of a problem with Mac's Calendar app that Apple couldn't fix, they had me create completely anew my daily (non-admin) account, and then transfer from the old account as little as possible (so as not to bring the problem with me).  I spent 2 or 3 days recreating settings and the like.  Might some GC file (perhaps in one of the libraries) not have been copied to the new account and be causing my problem?
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> I thumbed thru all the GC Preferences, and nothing jumped out at me (tho I don't understand them all).  (I didn't see anything re: choosing XML or SQL).
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> I'm not sure, or have only a general sense of, what you are referring to re: "account associations or file backend."
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> (I'd have responded sooner, but my GnuCash Thunderbird folder got nested, and I didn't check my web posting and see your response untill just now.)
> 

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The backend is selected when you save the file the first time, at the top of the save dialog. Since you didn't know that, you're probably using the XML backend and have been right along.

All of GC itself is in GnuCash.app, but its preferences are in ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist, other things it keeps track of are in ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, and if you're using online banking that's in ~/.aqbanking. I don't think that any of that would have any impact on Bayesian matching, which is all kept in the data file, though I suppose if you had to recreate aqbanking accounts you'd also have to re-associate them with GnuCash accounts and that might invalidate the old Bayesian keys.

Regards,
John Ralls