Investment account export then import

[Elwood]

In my case, I am trying to clean up various bad habits from before switching to GC. In this case, I am converting existing expenses into actual share purchases in an investment account. However, you do raise a good point. I should probably consider simply going with a current starting balance and just move forward on some of these things. 

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> On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Elwood <elwoodblues at bellsouth.net> writes:
> 
>> Am I asking about a feature no one uses here?
> 
> Probably, yes..  People tend to enter transactions in near-real-time,
> not historical transactions.  For historical transactions there are the
> importers.
> 
>>> On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Elwood <elwoodblues at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I see there is transaction export and import both in CSV
>>> format. However, it looks like the format is not the same (at least
>>> when doing transaction from an investment account). I noticed there
>>> are several conversion utilities (QIF, OXF, CSV) available for
>>> download from various places online, but it's hard to tell which of
>>> the free ones will actually help with trying to import Gnucash
>>> formatted investment transactions back in.
>>> 
>>> What I'm really trying to accomplish is duplicate a series of
>>> investment transactions from one college savings account to two
>>> others.  In one case, the real world transactions are identical for
>>> two accounts and at least similar for the third. (For the US
>>> audience, think 529 plans for three kids, one with a later HS
>>> graduation date. )
>>> 
>>> Anything I should be looking at or doing differently?
> 
> I'd ask why you want to enter in all the previous history as opposed to
> just a "starting balance".
> 
> If you do need your transactions entered you could either generate a QIF
> file and import it or you could generate an SX and have it generate all
> your transactions for you.
> 
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