QIF importer in 2.6.3 making new accounts with duplicate names

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Tue May 27 16:23:09 EDT 2014


On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:31:01 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

>  I tried the QIF importer today.
> > I now have one asset account named Joint and one brand new top level
> > account named Joint.
> > I have one top level account named cash (new) and one named Cash
> > (old)
> >
> > I now I imported the file from the credit union, and there was no
> > change in the account balance in the appropriate "Joint" account.
> > Now I see that I have a new "Joint" account.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this happen??  
> 
> I'm pretty sure nothing in this code has changed.  Just to be sure,
> are you certain that you mapped the QIF Account to the proper GnuCash
> account?  Or do you have:
> 
>   Assets:Foo:Joint   and
>   Assets:Foo:Joint 2 ?
> 
> If the latter, what are the account types and currencies of the two
> Joint accounts?

Original
Assets:Joint
Cash

After importer
Assets:Joint
Cash
cash
Joint

I'm not sure at what stage this happened, and not sure how I
contributed to it.


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